>From the ACM Bulletin: Thursday, June 5, 2014: Today's Topic: *People of ACM: Donald Knuth
Question: As a founding artist of computer science and a proponent of elegance in programming, what advice would you give to young people considering careers in computing? Answer: Dear young person, if you are a geek, the world needs you, and you will never run out of opportunities to apply your talents. I urge you to take a close look at "literate programming"; it's a way to write programs that makes me incredibly happy, several times each week. My book The Stanford GraphBase http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=164984&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE contains several dozen short examples of programs written in that style, intended to be read by humans first and machines next. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
