"The C Programming Language" question about quote in the preface
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From the preface of the second edition of Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language":
As before, all examples have been tested directly from the text, which is in machine-readable form.
That quote threw me for a loop. What exactly does it mean? Was the original manuscript written as a literate program? My first thought was that this book, published in 1988 (original, first edition in 1978) predates literate programming, but now I'm not so sure.
Can anybody shed some light on this?
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