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from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being.
Rudyard Kipling once explained, Dear Dedalus, that once upon a time there was a whale in the sea who ate fishes. Kipling wove a suspenseful tale that tells how the whale used its tail and got its throat. But don't you wonder, O Dear Dedalus, how the sea got the whale? For that matter, how on earth did the sea come to be?
Let’s suspend our quest for tales of whales for a moment and go back to the very beginning. Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies might think this is hard. But in fact it's much easier than Pi. What can possibly go wrong when nothing is right?
Give this a try:
- Make a head with a title nested inside it.
- Then perch it on a barren body.
- Toss in a comment or two—maybe a few.
(But you must not forget the comments, Dear Dedalus.)
With those elements, which are bounded by tags, and the comments (which you must not let lie) arranged just so in that text box (on the Code tab over there), making that, formerly known as this, or nothing at all transforms this page into a formless void.
(Have you forgotten the comments, Daedalus?)
not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding,
but also because it can be an aesthetic experience
much like composing poetry or music.
Wikipedia
Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)
w3schools.com
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- <html> MDN | w3schools </html>
- <head> MDN | w3schools </head>
- <title> MDN | w3schools </title>
- <body> MDN | w3schools </body>
- HTML Singleton Tags With No Closing Tag
Also on Wikipedia
- Ada Twist, Scientist
- Stem cell
- Daedalus
- Stephen Dedalus
- Martin Gardner & Oz
- Remembering Martin Gardner
- Literate Programming
- Some Pig → Charlotte's Web
- The Elements of Style
- E. B. White
- Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
- Turing Award
- About W3C
- HTML Living Standard
- James Marshall dies
- James Marshall papers
- YouTube Embedded Players and Player Parameters
- How do I get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API?
I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better documentation of programs,
and that we can best achieve this by considering programs to be works of literature.
By coining the phrase “literate programming,”
I am imposing a moral commitment on everyone who hears the term;
surely nobody wants to admit writing an illiterate program.
What is Dry Cow Fishing?
Fine Art; or, in the words of James Marshall, Tons of Fun!
What if I still have questions?
why literate programming hasn’t taken the whole world by storm.
He observed that a small percentage of the world’s population
is good at programming, and a small percentage is good at writing;
apparently I am asking everybody to be in both subsets.
Interview with Donald Knuth (2008)
as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told
"just so" (exactly in the words she was used to)
or she would complain.
- APA, MLA, and Chicago refer to three popular styles that may be used when citing sources.
- What does the acronym APA stand for, and who commonly uses APA style?
- What does the acronym MLA stand for, and who commonly uses MLA style?
- What is another name for Chicago style, and who commonly uses this style?
- In 1912, someone wrote the following in a publication referred to by the acronym ILN.
An interesting essay might be written on the possession of an atheistic literary style. There is such a thing. The mark of it is that wherever anything is named or described, such words are chosen as suggest that the thing has not got a soul in it. Thus they will not talk of love or passion, which imply a purpose and a desire. They talk of the “relations” of the sexes, as if they were simply related to each other in a certain way, like a chair and a table. Thus they will not talk of the waging of war (which implies a will), but of the outbreak of war – as if it were a sort of boil. Thus they will not talk of masters paying more or less wages, which faintly suggests some moral responsibility in the masters: they will talk of the rise and fall of wages, as if the thing were automatic, like the tides of the sea. Thus they will not call progress an attempt to improve, but a tendency to improve. And thus, above all, they will not call the sympathy between oppressed nations sympathy; they will call it solidarity. For that suggests brick and coke, and clay and mud, and all the things they are fond of.
- Who is this quote attributed to? What is the person's full name? What is a commonly used abbreviated version of this person's name?
- What does the acronym ILN stand for in this context?
- Who was Martin Gardner, and what is the relationship between Martin Gardner and the person to whom the quote above is attributed?
- What is the relationship between Donald Knuth and Martin Gardner?
- Listen to the Web of Stories video clip titled Learning about Symbolic Optimum Assembly programs featuring Donald Ervin Knuth.
- What five letter word does Donald Knuth talk about using in his tic-tac-toe program?
- What are various ways of spelling tic-tac-toe?
- What's another way to spell the word/color grey?
- These exercises involve volume 4A of Donald Ervin Knuth's set of books, The Art of Computer Programming.
- What is the title of Volume 4A?
- What languages besides English appear in the Index of Volume 4A?
- Does Donald E. Knuth prefer to cite sources using the full names or abbreviated names of individuals?
As a result, she now has a pig. A small one, to be sure, but nevertheless, a pig.
It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
