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[benoithamelin]

Having just fallen in love with literate programming, I stumble on this hilarious piece. Not so sobering as just a reminder that not every problem is a nail. As I said earlier, literate programming is a tool to manage the complexity of a problem solved in software. However, when the solution is expressed concisely in a certain language or toolkit, it is thus a simple problem in this perspective. Therefore, there is no complexity to manage in its solution, hence no need for tools such as literate programming.

Also, good programmers are writers in disguise. Training to be a programmer? Take a good course or two in nonfiction writing. Thank me later when you have an edge in organizing discourse.