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TAOCP Vol XIII: "Invent your own algorithms for fun and profit"?


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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:13:32 -0800

Could "illiterate programming" be far behind?

At 10:09 PM 11/26/2001 -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
>> I think you have to write bigger books to compete with the 3kg
>> behemoths.  Publishers like wider books because they are more visible
>> on bookshelves and at least some of the buying public seem to believe
>> that a bigger book is better because `surely in all those pages there
>> will be an answer to any question I might have', though that hasn't
>> been my experience.  I find that the behemoths are forced to cover all
>> topics superficially since they attempt to be encyclop=C3=A6dic by=
 touching
>> all topics lightly rather than going into detail on any (or many) of
>> them (and admittedly that might require multiple volumes, per The Art
>> of Computer Programming).
>
>hget http://metalab.unc.edu/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg |page -w
>
>
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