From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2004-08-31T07:20:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Typos (Was: performance comparison)

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:51:27 +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Hello Mark,
> 
> MP> Hi, Lothar.
> 
> MP> Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry but the hole idea of literature programming is one of the most
>>> stupid thing i've ever seen in the world of programming.

It is called literate programming.

>>> Can you give me one example of a larger program that uses the CWeb
>>> style, lets make it easy and say something with more then 100.000
>>> lines (a medium scale project) ?
>>> 
> MP> TeX
> 
> Don't now enough about Tex to be sure that is a real world project, but
> i deeply doubt that.
> AFAIK it's not developed by multipe persons that change over time. And
> did it really change a lot in the past.
> 
> 

People are still using TeX, more than 20 years after it was written. I
find that pretty amazing for a user-program.  If it doesn't qualify as a
real world project then I don't know what does.  I wonder if people would
be still using the software that you write now over 20 years (I doubt it).

Maybe we should be very grateful that Knuth isn't writing what you
call "real world programs".  Did you ever have a look in "The Art
of Computer Programming"?

> MP> True, it is language neutral.  The point is that, irrespective of
> MP> language --  C, Ruby, ASM, Eiffel -- people will make errors. PSP
> will MP> help lower the error rate regardless of the medium. To me, that
> is step MP> forward.
> 
> Only as an education/training method. For experts it does not reduce the
> error rate.

Regards,
KB