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An anthology of essays from the inventor of literate programming includes Knuth's early papers on related topics such as structured programming, as well as the Computer Journal article that launched literate programming itself.

Table of Contents
1. Computer programming as an art; 2. Structured programming with go to statements; 3. A structured program to generate all topological sorting arrangements; 4. Literate programming; 5. Programming pearls: sampling; 6. Programming pearls, continued: common words; 7. How to read a WEB; 8. Excerpts from the programs for TEX and METAFONT; 9. Mathematical writing; 10. The errors of TEX; 11. The error log of TEX; 12. An example of CWEB; Further reading; Index.

Literate Programming

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    A Paperback by Donald E. Knuth

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      Publisher Centre for the Study of Language & Information
      Published 6 January 1992
      ISBN-13 9780937073803
      978-0937073803
      ISBN-10 0937073806
      Also in:
      Object-oriented programming (OOP)

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An anthology of essays from the inventor of literate programming includes Knuth's early papers on related topics such as structured programming, as well as the Computer Journal article that launched literate programming itself.

      Table of Contents
      1. Computer programming as an art; 2. Structured programming with go to statements; 3. A structured program to generate all topological sorting arrangements; 4. Literate programming; 5. Programming pearls: sampling; 6. Programming pearls, continued: common words; 7. How to read a WEB; 8. Excerpts from the programs for TEX and METAFONT; 9. Mathematical writing; 10. The errors of TEX; 11. The error log of TEX; 12. An example of CWEB; Further reading; Index.

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