No he won't. The point of the reward has always been to solicit improvements to the text, point out things he missed -- it does not include conscious/stylistic choices. Please don't waste his time, as (from personal experience) he really does read and respond to error reports :-)
”Punctuation is extremely important to me, but I insist on doing it my own way.” — Knuth
[Edit: BTW, where in the paper are you seeing "plenty of indications to the contrary"? As far as I can tell there is only one earlier program by von Neumann mentioned, an earlier and 80x slower version of this same sorting program, which has not survived.]
”Punctuation is extremely important to me, but I insist on doing it my own way.” — Knuth
[Edit: BTW, where in the paper are you seeing "plenty of indications to the contrary"? As far as I can tell there is only one earlier program by von Neumann mentioned, an earlier and 80x slower version of this same sorting program, which has not survived.]