Donald Knuth On NPR

StratoFlyer writes "This morning, NPR is running an interview with Donald Knuth titled Donald Knuth, Founding Artist of Computer Science. The persistence of this man is extraordinary, if not heroic. RealPlayer and MediaPlayer feeds will be available at 10am EST, according to the NPR.org site." Indeed they are.

Comments

I'll tell you what's heroic

[Weaselmancer]

Posting Realplayer feeds on Slashdot's main page. If they're available for more than 5 minutes, then that's heroic.

Re:I'll tell you what's heroic

[Taladar]

Being in Real Player format they were unavailable to most of us even before they got posted on /. so there is no harm done.

Re:I'll tell you what's heroic

[grazzy]

Woah.. that was easy.. I can see the Linux desktop revolution nearing!

Re:Donald Knuth on NPR?

[worst_name_ever]

Is NPR some kind of drug?

Judging by the strung-out feeling this news junkie gets during the accursed pledge drive week, I'd say yes it is.

Re:Explain

[kin_korn_karn]

perhaps Mr. Knuth is a sandwich made on a long bun.

Re:TeX

[Anonymous Coward]

When he was dissatisfied with the way magazines printed his articles, he did what every other geek would have done, i.e. invented his own typesetting language.

You mean he didn't piss and moan about it on Slashdot?

Dyslexic editor gets it all wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

It's actually Donald Knuth on RPN. And he says it?s the greatest cause of brain damage in computing.

Re:Favorite part

[Otter]

A dog would probably be more aesthetically pleasing and environmentally sound, and has the further advantage that it will gladly walk to wherever the food is being discarded.

A goat will address a wider range of garbage, but has head-butting-related disadvantages.

Re:Favorite part

[jdgeorge]

This is a great idea. Sometimes I imagine my ideal house, and the kitchen table would have a garbage receptacle right in the middle.

In my house, the garbage receptacles are seated around the perimeter of the kitchen table.

Re:Favorite part

[Lars T.]

A dog right in the middle of the kitchen table? I'm not so sure about that.

Re: Getting Rid of E-mail

[MyLongNickName]

If someone sends me a snail mail letter, the quality tends to be much higher than e-mail. Electronic media tends to make things so easy that folks don't put much forethought into their writings? Want proof? Look at my comment history :)

Re:Shhhh!

[geomon]

There all idiots who can't even spell!

The art of the elegant troll.

Re:Pretty good piece

[Anonymous Coward]

You want to know how Donald Knuth found a piece of information? Maybe it's time to re-read Volume 3?

I'm sure that he found it by walking the paths from Stanford to your address using Dijkstra's alogrithm to find the shortest route. And he did it without ever crossing the Koningsburg bridge!