From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kevin.bowling@kev009.com (Kevin Bowling) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 23:29:23 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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 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."