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Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Vol. 4

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stuff-to-read dept.

_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."

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  1. Dear Knuth by Letter · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dear Knuth,

    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?

    Letter

  2. I DO read them! by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. The Childe Knuth by iJames · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man. At this rate, he's never going to get to the Dark Tower.

  4. Re:Knuth isn't God.. by unknown_host · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."