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Donald Knuth on Multi-Core, Unit Testing, Literate Programming, and XP

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Mark Thornton

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Re: Donald Knuth on Multi-Core, Unit Testing, Literate Programming, and XP Posted: May 3, 2008 1:52 AM
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"a small percentage of the world’s population is good at programming, and a small percentage is good at writing; apparently I am asking everybody to be in both subsets"

It is worse than that as you also need to be comfortable with the markup scheme. I rather like TeX as it is compact and quite comprehensive, but most of my colleagues do not. The 'modern' approach might be to use XHTML+MathML+SVG, but this markup is unsuited to writing by hand in a regular editor. So perhaps we need IDE support as well, but I haven't seen any ...

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