Past related threads:

Donald Knuth was framed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406070 - Feb 2020 (180 comments)

More shell, less egg (And Then McIlroy Said Unto Knuth) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15701452 - Nov 2017 (2 comments)

More shell, less egg (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15265000 - Sept 2017 (7 comments)

More shell, less egg (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10081539 - Aug 2015 (28 comments)

More shell, less egg (2011, on McIlroy and Knuth) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7381900 - March 2014 (3 comments)

Knuth and the Unix Way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3329668 - Dec 2011 (62 comments)