I remember working in an Internet cafe and in the evenings out of boredom would read Knuth. I used to visit uni libraries and hunker down with TAOCP for a few hours until cramp, physical and mental, became too painful. Oh my golly what a privilege.
These are the tablets of our age. You'll note these tomes are granted the only definite article in English.
But mainly the thoroughness. Every path is an avenue of thought in this vast mapping of computation. It's always graceful, terse, and full of pleasure. The guy can carve candyfloss with a jackhammer and weave a mountain out spider's web.
Gates famously said anyone who'd read the books would get an interview. Yeah! "So what about ..., pretty lovely eh?"
And he's still going strong. A true hero.
I wonder what he thinks about HOTT... any clues? A quick ddg didn't show anything :(
I remember working in an Internet cafe and in the evenings out of boredom would read Knuth. I used to visit uni libraries and hunker down with TAOCP for a few hours until cramp, physical and mental, became too painful. Oh my golly what a privilege.
These are the tablets of our age. You'll note these tomes are granted the only definite article in English.
But mainly the thoroughness. Every path is an avenue of thought in this vast mapping of computation. It's always graceful, terse, and full of pleasure. The guy can carve candyfloss with a jackhammer and weave a mountain out spider's web.
Gates famously said anyone who'd read the books would get an interview. Yeah! "So what about ..., pretty lovely eh?"
And he's still going strong. A true hero.
I wonder what he thinks about HOTT... any clues? A quick ddg didn't show anything :(
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