5 Jun
2013
5 Jun
'13
12:07 p.m.
On 06/04/2013 01:52 AM, Paul Birkel wrote:
> Does anyone read/study Don Knuth's "Art ..." (TAOCP) any more?
Sorting
> using tape drives ... what fun! Memory, what memory ... don't need no
> stinkin' memory!
I wish that more were at least willing to look through it.
7 years ago, when they discontinued all of the "advanced" programming
classes, I was re-assigned to be a librarian. I insisted on the library
getting Knuth and K&R. The head librarian tried to veto them, "They are
WAY TOO OLD! We should only get current stuff." I pushed it. Hard. We got them over her objections.
I have always had a copy at home, a copy at my business, a copy at my
college office. Now that I am RETIRED, maybe I'll eventually get rid of a
few copies. NOT YET.
Some months back a local chrity shop (what you cal la thrift store) had
the 3-volume set (2nd and 3rd editions) in a slip case for \pounds 5.00.
Well, I am not a progranmmer .... But I bought them, of course. I might
even complete reading them one day.
-tony