Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Vol. 4 289
_mutators writes "bookpool.com has posted an excerpt from Knuth's long awaited The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 4. It is very short and discusses combinatorial searching. But when will it be published? Bookpool does not hazard a guess."
/.ed (Score:3, Funny)
"The Art of Being Slashdotted"
Dear Knuth (Score:5, Funny)
After Vol. 4 are you going to do some "prequels?" So 1-4 are actually, say, 3-6, and then the new Vols. 1 and 2 include new special effects capable only in LaTeX2e?
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I DO read them! (Score:5, Funny)
That's absolute nonsense. I often will take one of his volumes off the bookshelf, put La Boheme on the stereo (the Pappano recording, of course) , pour myself a glass of Le Montrachet '78, and peruse Prof. Bluth's delightful words. You shouldn't be bitter just because you're too uncouth to understand them.
Re:You can already buy some of it (Score:5, Funny)
Whichever's out first, I bet Knuth is a lot more stable.
The Childe Knuth (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Kill Yr Idols: Donald Knuth (Score:5, Funny)
Hey now, that was a pretty low blow. Many of us hate Mountain Dew.
Re:Many own, few read (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Many own, few read (Score:1, Funny)
I am proud to say I bought them to learn machine language for my computer. But for some reason the instructions never worked on my machine!
Re:Many own, few read (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Kill Yr Idols: Donald Knuth (Score:5, Funny)
Why are you getting so worked up about an improvement by only a constant factor?
Theoretically, the methods are equivalent... In fact, as the number of Knuth's books goes to infinity, the overhead of having to call the typesetters each time will overcome the one-time expense of writing the typesetting language.
Spoiler (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Additional information (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nifty from the Knuth (Score:3, Funny)
Steve Jobs has read them... (Score:4, Funny)
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books."
"You're full of shit," Knuth responded.
From folklore.org [folklore.org]
Re:Knuth isn't God.. (Score:5, Funny)
Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!"
Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best operating system in the world!"
Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."
Photo of the cover! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nifty from the Knuth (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Knuth isn't God.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Many own, few read (Score:3, Funny)
I thought you were supposed to write your own emulator. After all, he does give instructions on page 100 or thereabouts.
Re:Knuth isn't God.. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, apparently he was told just to go to the conference, but he considered that advice harmful.
Re:Apples to oranges. (Score:4, Funny)
Most of us swear at Word's facilities.