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by thr-nrg
1124 days ago
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And? Knuth also used Pascal for the original Web and TeX. Both are still Pascal programs that get transpiled to C before being compiled. Just because he does something doesn't mean you should copy it religiously. Web and its derivatives are sufficiently advanced that they suffer from the lisp curse. What in other systems are major fundamental engineering problems - try adding an include in the middle of a c file - in Web derivates are a matter of taste. Do you have a chunk that picks up includes as you need them? Is it a big one at the front or back? It's up to you. |
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And nothing. For programs that are ostensibly meant to be read, Knuth's examples are poor ones.
> in Web derivates are a matter of taste
Dumping a bunch of includes at the top and saying the equivalent of "don't worry about this boring stuff for now; you can skip it if you want" (and thereby compromising the entire LP experiment) is a matter of taste in the way that putting beef in a vegan casserole is.