4 Dec
2006
4 Dec
'06
7:08 p.m.
On Dec 4, 2006, at 9:53 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
They're worth every penny.
I have just
got hold of a new copy. If I had known what was in
them, I
would have shelled out for them ages ago.
I know (in general terms) what's in them, but I haven't been able to
bring myself to shell out the full tick. :-/ P.S. - if I ever get it in my head to "invent a
new sort", I know a)
to start with Knuth, and b) that I'm almost certainly wrong if I think
I have a clever new way to do it.
Huh? Who was it that, a hundred or so years ago, asked the gov't
to shut down the patent office because, surely, everything had
already been invented?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL