From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "William K. Josephson" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book Message-ID: <20010112132030.A24968@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <3A59E217.D84DBB99@arl.army.mil>, <200101082007.PAA15794@augusta.math.psu.edu> <93kq8o$cv4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <93kq8o$cv4$1@nnrp1.deja.com>; from saroj@bear.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:32:00AM +0000 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:20:30 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4c445318-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:32:00AM +0000, saroj@bear.com wrote: > And finally, he demonstrated that even large programs can be > explained in full detail (unlike most programs written by early > Bell Labs guys), though Pascal is not a great language on which > WEB (the implementation language of TeX) is based. I'm not at all sure that literate programming has been so clearly demonstrated to be a win. I'll try avoid starting a flame-war over the merits of LP by leaving it at that ;-) -WJ