From: kevin.bowling@kev009.com (Kevin Bowling)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Donald Knuth!
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 23:29:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7dMtDz-qR=fBTCF53TjER3-okcscpvdabevgRWC9nUnwyw8g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801100800010.53831@aneurin.horsfall.org>
I think it's phenomenal that he is still working on his books. It's
good to have people to look up to :}
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 2:31 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 Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
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