At 09:48 PM 9/1/00 -0400, Tim May wrote:

(Not taking anything away from Furlong's work. I bought Knuth's book on LP, circa 1994 or so, but never got into it in a major way--being a Lisp and Smalltalk kind of person, I didn't see the point. But, to be fair, there was much discussion of "how can they ban programs when programs are speech?" back in 1993 or so, when Clipper was a hot issue. To "pull a Tim," check the archives.)

The issue is one of complexity management, and synch. How to keep doc synced to code, how to reduce impedence of poor sap forced to learn and edit someone else's code.