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Date: Thu,  9 Jul 2009 13:50:23 -0400
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From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
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2009/7/9 Micah Stetson <micah@stetsonnet.org>:
>> Why would it take a book? =A0DMR made the point succinctly in his
>> critique of Knuth's literate program, showing how a few command-line
>> utilities do the work of the Don's elaborately constructed tries.
>
> Do you have a URL for this?

I looked this up yesterday, and there is some discussion on
literateprogramming.com -- the discussion actually illustrates how to
take the shell script and make *it* literate programming instead. It
actually wasn't DMR, it was McIlroy.

> Micah

--dho