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		gowld on April 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with b... We're business application/infastructure maintainers, not programmers. It's a different world from Knuth's expressions of mathematical ideas. Outside of work, it's easy to write whole programs. Project Euler, LeetCode, etc. These are the kinds of programs Knuth is talking about -- example programs to illustrate algorithms from TAOCP.

bbbobbb on April 16, 2020 [–]

I understand that but those don't fall into the "not for sake of programs" category.

Under that category, I imagine something where the resulting program itself is of any, however minuscule, use to me.

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