Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@palmin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palmin</span></a></span> </p><p>Interesting juxtaposition of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sudoku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sudoku</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Knuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Knuth</span></a>. Remarkable how the order is completely reversed in the modern programmers' <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hierarchyOfNeeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hierarchyOfNeeds</span></a> —</p><p>1. Get paid for computer programming</p><p>2. Even make your programs do useful work — May be sudoku grid from a dependency graph qualifies</p><p>3. Embrace <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LiterateProgramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiterateProgramming</span></a> —Make well-written programs FUN to read. </p><p>No <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a>, but my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swift</span></a> toolchain does supports <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> in code comments to capture joy for posterity</p><p><a href="https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~k</span><span class="invisible">nuth/lp.html</span></a></p>