From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: saroj@bear.com
Message-ID: <94262p$5dg$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
References: <008501c07fe6$f760dd60$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr>
Subject: Re: Tr: [9fans] off topic: troff book
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:35:10 +0000
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In article <008501c07fe6$f760dd60$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr>,
  boyd@planete.net (Boyd Roberts) wrote:
> please put the Reply-To: back, please?
>
> From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@planete.net>
> To: <saroj@bear.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
>
> > From: <saroj@bear.com>
> > >
> > > Sorry, how many programs written by you can be read from cover to
> > > cover and fully understood?
> >
> > would you like statistics or would you just prefer for me to
> > say _all_ of them?  then again, it depends on the _reader_ too.
> >
> > read pop.c in:
> >
> >     http://www.planete.net/~boyd/code/mace.bundle
> >
> > and get back to me.
>


I am sure you can write good programs. I do not have time to
check mace.bundle though. My point was before you dismiss
Knuth's work, please read MMIX, Stanford Graphbase, and many
others using LP. From what I know, you have been in programming
for a long time, but if you have not already checked out his
work and books, it may be a new beginning for you.

Thank you,
Saroj Mahapatra


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