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  1. Dec 2020
    1. A bad literate program is worse than no literate program at all.

      Definitely. The way I wrote this in my own notes once upon a time was:

      Conjecture:¶ Attempting to write a literate program and landing somewhere off the mark produces a program that is worse than if it were written in the ordinary tradition.

    1. All engineers really want to do is write components.

      One of the perils that most programmers are probably familiar with, especially in the early years.

    1. If step one had been "learn the GCC or LLVM toolchains well enough to add segmented stacks", I'm not sure we'd have gotten to step two.

      This is great and a restatement of the laconic truth that the slowest build toolchain is the one that the user is never able to coax to successful completion.

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