From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Donald Knuth!
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:24:33 -0500 [thread overview]
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This was sent to me by one of my old DEC co-workers over the holidays, an
interesting read: Don Knuth
<https://www.livinglutheran.org/2018/12/im-a-lutheran-don-knuth/>
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On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 4:10 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> Computer pioneer Donald Knuth was born on this day in 1938; amongst other
> things he gave us the TeX typesetting language, and he's still working on
> "The
> Art Of Computer Programming" fascicles (I only got as far as the first two
> volumes).
>
> I really must have a look at his new MMIX, too; I love learning new
> programming
> languages (I've used about 50 the last time I looked, and I'm happy to
> post a
> list for my coterie of disbelievers).
>
> -- Dave
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