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Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Vol. 4
_mutators writes "bookpool.com has posted an excerpt from Knuth's long awaited The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 4. It is very short and discusses combinatorial searching. But when will it be published? Bookpool does not hazard a guess."
The next volume will be:
"The Art of Being Slashdotted"
After Vol. 4 are you going to do some "prequels?" So 1-4 are actually, say, 3-6, and then the new Vols. 1 and 2 include new special effects capable only in LaTeX2e?
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How many people have bought the entire Knuth series just to occupy the moral high ground on their bookshelf?
That's absolute nonsense. I often will take one of his volumes off the bookshelf, put La Boheme on the stereo (the Pappano recording, of course) , pour myself a glass of Le Montrachet '78, and peruse Prof. Bluth's delightful words. You shouldn't be bitter just because you're too uncouth to understand them.
And I'll bet Knuth doesn't slip nearly as bad as Longhorn.
Whichever's out first, I bet Knuth is a lot more stable.
Tag lost or not installed.
Man. At this rate, he's never going to get to the Dark Tower.
Hey now, that was a pretty low blow. Many of us hate Mountain Dew.
Don't be silly. We don't mod heretics down. We burn them.
How many people have bought the entire Knuth series just to occupy the moral high ground on their bookshelf?
I am proud to say I bought them to learn machine language for my computer. But for some reason the instructions never worked on my machine!
The one exercise reducing a NP problem to a P problem has me stumped and I can't quite figure it out. Other than that, I've got most of them.
Why are you getting so worked up about an improvement by only a constant factor?
Theoretically, the methods are equivalent... In fact, as the number of Knuth's books goes to infinity, the overhead of having to call the typesetters each time will overcome the one-time expense of writing the typesetting language.
Quicksort shoots first.
My other car is a 1984 Nark Avenger.
This posting is a hoax! The real Don Knuth would have it in TeX format, not PostScript.
Best Buy can have you arrested
I once went to Tibet to learn that superpower. After five years I came home, went to an adult bookstore, touched a shelf, and my head exploded.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books."
"You're full of shit," Knuth responded.
From folklore.org
Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on whose impact on Computer Science was the greatest.
Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!"
Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best operating system in the world!"
Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."
Here's a photo of the cover.
So, the real superpower you learned was how to survive without a head?
while Dijkstra was still trying to find the shortest path to the conference
Nobody studies Knuth without a MIX or MMIX emulator at hand.
I thought you were supposed to write your own emulator. After all, he does give instructions on page 100 or thereabouts.
Yes, apparently he was told just to go to the conference, but he considered that advice harmful.
Most of us swear at Word's facilities.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.