CDR: Re: RC4 source as a literate program

[David Honig]

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.