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		konjin on Nov 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nbdev: A literate programming environment that dem... 1). Notebooks were invented by Mathematica in the 80s. 2). Words have meanings and literate programming is defined extremely well by Knuth in his 1983 paper. This is not what was described there any more than the WWW is Xanadu. 3). That is not what No True Scotsman means.

contravariant on Nov 20, 2020 [–]

> That is not what No True Scotsman means.

Setting aside whether you are or are not right, can we just appreciate the irony in that statement for a moment?

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