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That’s actually a really good comparison. Jupiter adds interactivity that WEB didn’t do, but remove the ability to easily compile and distribute the finished product.

Another extremely important successor to Knuth’s ideas is the built-in documentation comment formats that most programming languages have. They tend to eschew linear narrative in favour of navigable hypertext, which is honestly a good idea for many purposes but sadly relegates the “overall vision” stuff to supplementary documentation.




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