Homage to Icarus

Here’s Knuth in an inter­view:
As to your real ques­tion, the idea of imme­di­ate com­pi­la­tion and “unit tests” appeals to me only rarely, when I’m feel­ing my way in a totally unknown envi­ron­ment and need feed­back about what works and what doesn’t…
Hmm, peo­ple who are “feel­ing their way in a totally unknown envi­ron­ment”… Like new contributors […]