Knuth Releases Another Part of Volume 4

junge_m writes "Donald Knuth has released another of his by now famous pre-fascicles to Volume 4 of his epic: Pre-fascicle 2c is all about 'Generating all Combinations' supplementing his pre-fascicles 2a and 2b. Furthermore he challenges us all to do more of his daunting exercises and report our success. He thinks we are way too lazy in this respect! So come on slashdot crowd: Do your homework and get the credit from the grandmaster himself!"

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$2.56 worth.

[SloppyElvis]

LOL! That's quite a reward for finding errors in Knuth's brain child. While Knuth professes Computer Science and the French language have changed significantly since vol. 1, the Economics of error-finding have remained the same... What about inflation Prof. Knuth!?

This suggestion should be worth $0.32

Reality Check!

[K'tohg]

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

Sounds as if he is stuck in the 60s. Sorry buddy but I used that line once and got slapped.

In todays world of skript kikddies and MCPs (Magazine Certified Programmers) The "if your a programmer then you should know how the computer works" way of thinking is right out.

I have met about three computer programmers so far and thay couldn't tell me why explorer.exe was required to have at least one instance running at all times!

I remember one Visual C++ programmer who every time a shouted "Damb it! another illegal operation bug! I want my Linux machine back!" he would reply "You need to go to an OS collage course and learn why an OS is so hard and complicated. These things are little things because the OS is so busy with just running it can't handle everything"

hmmm. I would award him the nobel prize for computer sympathy!

So I guess the computer idustry is so saturated that anybody who anybody can join without any prior skills or knowladge. Gone are the days of codeFu. Gone are the days of mathamatics. Gone are the scientists striving to get to the moon. And in come the monkeys with quick tails to bow to the needs of every big haired boss.

Looks like Open Source comunity better get trucking in taking over the world. If we continue eventually the whole internet will have a big general protection fault and the only ones left standing will be us!