Being creative and liking music in my opinion is common in many of the computer people I have worked with over many years. It’s also as both of you have mentioned interesting..
Scott On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 9:47 AM Joel C. Ewing <jcew...@acm.org> wrote: > On 12/22/18 10:27 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: > > Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his > > opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.” > > > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html > > > > > > ...plenty here on computers, programming, mathematics, typesetting. > > > > I've forever had Volumes 1 and 3 of his series but can't claim to have > > read them completely. He's writing them fast than I'm reading them. > > > > ... > > > I also. The choice of other non-computer items sprinkled through the > books was always entertaining: the literary quotes, the ancestry chart > of English monarchs come to mind. > > And he has some unusual hobbies not mentioned in the NYT article: How > many people do you know that have a pipe organ designed for and built in > their home? https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html > > Joel C Ewing > > -- > Joel C. Ewing > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
