> Did Knuth try to make his code reusable? Was it reusable? I think those are the key questions.
That wasn't the goal of the exercise. So how is that a key question?
The exercise was: Demonstrate WEB and literate programming with this particular problem. Knuth did that. The question, then, is whether the method demonstrated literate programming and WEB.
If you want to know whether the approach or tools work for creating reusable code and less monolothic code, then that question should be posed and a new exercise performed. The question shouldn't be posed to an exercise where that wasn't a concern, it's dishonest.
That wasn't the goal of the exercise. So how is that a key question?
The exercise was: Demonstrate WEB and literate programming with this particular problem. Knuth did that. The question, then, is whether the method demonstrated literate programming and WEB.
If you want to know whether the approach or tools work for creating reusable code and less monolothic code, then that question should be posed and a new exercise performed. The question shouldn't be posed to an exercise where that wasn't a concern, it's dishonest.