Re: Donald Knuth

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From: ma... Malcolm Austin
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 1990 20:29

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In article <74...@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcg...@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire) writes:
>In article <2919.2...@cc.helsinki.fi> mnyk...@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>>Is there any field in Computerland that Donald Knuth hasn't worked on?
>>-- Matti Nyk{nen
>
>Knuth, to my knowledge, hasn't written anything on operating systems or
>artificial intelligence.  (That doesn't mean, however, that others haven't 
>directly applied his research to topics in those fields.)
>
>[Trivia deleted]

Speaking of D. Knuth, does anyone know if he intends to write the final four
volumes of THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING?  The Table of Contents sure looked
interesting. :^)

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"Stripped of its fancy jargon, an object is a lexically scoped subroutine
with multiple entry points and persistant state." -- Scott Guthery, "Are the
Emperor's New Clothes Object Oriented?", Dr. Dobbs Journal, Dec 89
--
Malcolm Austin -- ma...@fir.morgan.com 
Disclaimer (v.), to disarm an opponent wielding a Scottish broadsword

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