id: 97
title: Epic Computer Science Battles
text: Donald Knuth and literate programming vs. Douglas McIlroy and UNIX one-liners.
date: 2018-02-01 12:00:00 UTC
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tags: knuth, mcilroy, literate programming, one liners, unix, computer science, battle, donald knuth, douglas mcilroy, programming, dragon curve, terminal, shell