Jon Bentley probably hit the nail on the head when he once was asked 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.
—DONALD ERVIN KNUTH, Interview with Donald Knuth (2008)
An interview with the author isn’t the worst way to reveal this weblog’s raison d’être, a method or two lurking in its madness, and an acknowledgment.