The main idea is to regard a program as a communication to human beings rather than as a set of instructions to a computer. Your program is also viewed as a hypertext document, rather like the World Wide Web. (Indeed, Knuth used the word WEB for this purp
Ausgezeichnetes Interview, u.a. zu Open Source, zu Literate Programming und zur Arbeitsweise Knuths. Berührt an vielen Stellen Fragen der "Literacy". Und: "I’m basically advising young people to listen to themselves rather than to others".