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		<title>Donald Knuth&#8217;s view on code reuse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Knuth, the advocate of literate programming, gave his opinion on code reuse from an interview by Andrew Binstock
I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for reusable code. To me, &#8220;re-editable code&#8221; is much, much better than an untouchable black box or toolkit. I could go on and on about this. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Donald Knuth, the advocate of literate programming, gave his opinion on code reuse from an <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856">interview</a> by Andrew Binstock</p>
<blockquote><p>I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for reusable code. To me, &#8220;re-editable code&#8221; is much, much better than an untouchable black box or toolkit. I could go on and on about this. If you’re totally convinced that reusable code is wonderful, I probably won’t be able to sway you anyway, but you’ll never convince me that reusable code isn’t mostly a menace.</p></blockquote>
<p>In my view, literately programmed code should be visible for every programmer through its evolution, so literate programming doesn&#8217;t cope with OCP well. I guess it is why he prefer &#8220;re-editable&#8221; code to reusable black box code. But I think benefits of information hiding can be sacrificed in no case.</p>
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