On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 03:37:58PM -0400, Peter Olson wrote:
> > On July 15, 2016 at 5:12 AM Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Peter Olson wrote:
> >
> > > You misunderstand what the IOCCC is about. It's a game. Nobody
> > > trying to write useful code will do anything like what IOCCC writes.
> >
> > well, I even argue is software-art :^) back 15 years ago I facilitated
> > the inclusion of some IOCCC entries in this exibition originally shown
> > at the MAK in Frankfurt, which then went pretty much around the world
> > http://www.digitalcraft.org/iloveyou/c_code.htm
> >
> > but yes, its definitely not polite nor useful to obfuscate code that
> > people uses. to the contrary, I think literate programming is the way
>
> 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.

I'm still waiting for volume 7. It was supposed to have some
interesting stuff on recursive coroutines.

-- hendrik