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by cxr 1132 days ago
> And?

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.