[squeak-dev] [ANN] Erlang-style Actors for Squeak

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Mon Feb 19 19:08:46 UTC 2018


Donald E. Knuth’s work on Literate Programming may be of interest:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming>>
<http://www.literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf <http://www.literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf>>
<https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html <https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html>>

	Ken G. Brown

> On Feb 19, 2018, at 11:18, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 19-02-2018, at 7:23 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at leastfixedpoint.com> wrote:
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>> (I spent rather too much time writing documentation.)
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> I'm pretty sure that is impossible except in the very special sense of spending time getting it wrong and having to redo it. Which probably in't even a mistake in truth.
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> I really wish the software world in general would live by the aphorism "don't document the program, program the document" rather than "comments? why do you think we call it code?"
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> tim
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> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Useful random insult:- Diarrhea of the mouth; constipation of the ideas.
> 

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