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Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday

Posted by kdawson on from the perhaps-metafont-ported-to dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Donald Knuth is planning to make an 'earthshaking announcement' on Wednesday, at TeX's 32nd Anniversary Celebration, on the final day of the TUG 2010 Conference. Unfortunately, nobody seems to know what it is. So far speculation ranges from proving P!=NP, to a new volume of The Art of Computer Programming, to his retirement. Maybe Duke Nukem Forever has been ported to MMIX?" Let the speculation begin.

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  1. Re:Who? by countertrolling · · Score: 0, Troll

    To draw a comparison, it's like being a geneticist and not knowing who Gregor Mendel is. Or a physicist/mathematician and drawing a blank when Sir Isaac Newton's name comes up. You could be a philosopher who has never heard of Aristotle or Plato. Or a FLOSS developer who has never heard of Richard Stallman. A game developer who has never heard of John Carmack.

    Who?

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    For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
  2. John Carmack by pjt33 · · Score: 1, Troll

    A game developer who has never heard of John Carmack.

    I didn't hear of Carmack until I'd been working in game development for a couple of years - and even then I heard about him in a /. discussion. There's more to games than FPSes. IMO Sid Meier would be a better example in the field of game development.