My heyday in programming was about five years ago, and I’ve really let my skills fade. I started finding myself making excuses for my lack of ability. I’d tackle harder ways to work around problems ...

The interview I mentioned last week, between Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth included this bit about literate programming: Andrew: One of the few projects of yours that hasn't been embraced by a ...

Most of today's software is buggy because not everyone has converted to literate programming, Donald Knuth, author of the work on algorithmic analysis, The Art of Computer Programming and the TeX ...

*The world is a place of many paths not-taken. Donald Knuth. "Literate Programming (1984)" in Literate Programming. CSLI, 1992, pg. 99. I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better ...

Software, the sages tell us, should be written primarily for other humans to read and only incidentally for machines to read. I could not agree more. However, as most developers will tell you, project ...

Are you writing your code for humans or computers? I wasn’t there, but my guess is that at the dawn of computing, people thought that they were writing for the machines. After all, they were writing ...