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0 pointsslimsag2y ago0 comments

Wow, I didn't know Knuth said that. I would've been 7 years old at the time - wild.

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Knuth has been saying interesting things for a very long time. He began _The Art of Computer Programming_ project in 1962.

dhosek2y ago

Yeah, I’m thinking that I met DEK before the parent poster was born (he told me that I would be able to be his student because I wasn’t taller than him. Spoiler: I was never his student).

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0 pointsslimsag2y ago0 comments

Wow, I didn't know Knuth said that. I would've been 7 years old at the time - wild.

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pmcjones2y ago

Knuth has been saying interesting things for a very long time. He began _The Art of Computer Programming_ project in 1962.

dhosek2y ago

Yeah, I’m thinking that I met DEK before the parent poster was born (he told me that I would be able to be his student because I wasn’t taller than him. Spoiler: I was never his student).

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