Teaching Programming

[alex23]

Ed Keith <e_... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Knuth wanted the generated source to be unreadable, so people would not be tempted to edit the generated code.

This is my biggest issue with Knuth's view of literate programming. If
the generated source isn't readable, am I just supposed to trust it?
How can I tell if an error lies in my expression of the algorithm or
in the code generation itself?