On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 09:12:21PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 03:37:58PM -0400, Peter Olson wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > I'm a fan of Donald Knuth as well. My funny story is that when I was in > > college, I got an offer from Addison-Wesley to preorder the seven volume > > set "The Art of Computer Programming" for the low. low price of $119. It's > > now more than 40 years later and volumes 5, 6, and 7 are still missing :-) > > I'm glad I didn't take the offer :) On the other hand it is terrifically > > cool that he got so frustrated with the mechanics of typesetting that he > > developed TeX. > > And METAFONT, for that matter, and the language (WEB) he used to write > TeX and METAFONT. In my mind I have always compared Donald Knuth to a > chimera with the head of Dante Alighieri, the body of Johannes > Gutenberg, and the arms and legs of a medieval blacksmith.
And he's one of the really big men of computer science -- he has to bend down to go through doorways. -- hendrik > > That's an amazing man. > > HND > > KatolaZ > > -- > [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] > [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] > [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] > [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] > [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
