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macintux on May 8, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Donald Knuth was framed (2020)

> It seems to me that both McIlroy’s original critique and this blog post miss the point by a mile. It’s completely meaningless to compare the relative merits of the two solutions, because Knuth’s ultimate goal isn’t to produce a solution.

I don’t follow: aren’t you effectively restating the blog post’s argument? How did the blog post miss the point?

yen223 on May 8, 2022 [–]

Perhaps by misrepresenting the blog post's argument, the comment is reinforcing the blog post's point about the importance of reading primary sources.

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