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Knuth: All Questions Answered

Posted by timothy on from the art-of-computer dept.

sunhou writes: "The AMS published a lecture by Donald Knuth called All Questions Answered (pdf), where Knuth simply responded to questions from the audience. Topics ranged from errors in software ('I think Microsoft should say, "You'll get a check from Bill Gates every time you find an error"') to how he gets distracted by fonts on restaurant menus, to software patents. There were some really good questions (and responses)."

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  1. Re:TeX and recent GNU/Linux distros by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 1, Redundant
    When I got done, I wrote a letter, and soon discovered that TeX was not included! What the hell?

    It's probably because 99% of the people are like me. When I run out of disk space, the first thing i do is:

    rpm -qa | grep etex | xargs rpm -e

    Presto! 50 megs freed up. Mandrake probably figures most people don't want to learn how to use rpm, much less learn the TeX language. This saves them the trouble.