When Knuth came up with the term/idea of "literate programming" and the idea of programs as works of literature, in the paper (http://literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf) he joked (I think?) that he hoped that, just as there are Pulitzer prizes for literature, there may one
day be Pulitzer prizes awarded to computer programs.
Well, reality is even stranger than imagination: no computer program has won a Pulitzer prize, but this computer program won an Oscar! Here's a video of the awards ceremony, where Kristen Bell and Michael B. Jordan introduce the recipients, and at 2:12 Matt Pharr comes up and says "needless to say, when we started writing a book we never expected an Academy Award would be the end result of that effort" and thanks Donald Knuth for literate programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9juPsv1QU
Well, reality is even stranger than imagination: no computer program has won a Pulitzer prize, but this computer program won an Oscar! Here's a video of the awards ceremony, where Kristen Bell and Michael B. Jordan introduce the recipients, and at 2:12 Matt Pharr comes up and says "needless to say, when we started writing a book we never expected an Academy Award would be the end result of that effort" and thanks Donald Knuth for literate programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9juPsv1QU
Knuth has repeated the joke/remark (https://www.pbr-book.org):
> “This book has deservedly won an Academy Award. I believe it should also be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.”