On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 09:12:21PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 03:37:58PM -0400, Peter Olson wrote:
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> > I'm a fan of Donald Knuth as well. My funny story is that when I was in college, I got an offer from Addison-Wesley to preorder the seven volume set "The Art of Computer Programming" for the low. low price of $119. It's now more than 40 years later and volumes 5, 6, and 7 are still missing :-) I'm glad I didn't take the offer :) On the other hand it is terrifically cool that he got so frustrated with the mechanics of typesetting that he developed TeX.
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> And METAFONT, for that matter, and the language (WEB) he used to write
> TeX and METAFONT. In my mind I have always compared Donald Knuth to a
> chimera with the head of Dante Alighieri, the body of Johannes
> Gutenberg, and the arms and legs of a medieval blacksmith.
And he's one of the really big men of computer science -- he has to
bend down to go through doorways.
-- hendrik
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> That's an amazing man.
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> HND
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> KatolaZ
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