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by cb321 1302 days ago
Related: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/donald-knuth-wa...

As you say, Knuth was asked to demonstrate his literate programming... In some ways this is a direct request for the non-pithy, articulated, first principles answer. I would more say Knuth was set up than that he was framed, but tomato-tomato. :)