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[fusiongyro]

It would be majestic if it weren't so absurd. Who's written anything worthy of that treatment? I think this is why literate programming interests me. Almost none of the code written today is worthy of being a real cultural artifact, or even a family heirloom.

[Apocryphon → fusiongyro]

It would be fun to simultaneously confuse future archeologists and preserve code in hardcopy for their edification.

[fusiongyro → Apocryphon]

I agree it would be fun, and I probably spend too much time worrying about future archeologists, I just think it would be nice if we had some code that was worthy of the honor. Practicality seems to demand that code be functional first and beautiful a very distant second, despite all the talking and blogging to the contrary.

[tripzilch → fusiongyro]

There must be some code worthy of this, though ... isn't there anything open-source-ish known for its beautiful code?

TeX, maybe? Additionally, there would be a certain delight in handwriting an illuminated manuscript of code that is meant for typesetting ... :)

[eksith → fusiongyro]

MINIX has already had a fair amount of its code already in print. Then again, it was a teaching tool in the first place so that was by necessity.

If the new version can be The Standard for real time OSes with simplicity and security as priorities, then it could also go in print.

http://www.minix3.org

[pnathan → fusiongyro]

I would say that a Lisp64 implementation could attain that. Elegance of original thought leading to elegance to implementation.

[gngeal → fusiongyro]

Who's written anything worthy of that treatment?

Almost - not who but _why.