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Re^3: Shuffling CODONSby huck (Prior) |
on Jun 07, 2018 at 21:15 UTC ( [id://1216141]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
"arguably the greatest Computer Scientist of the current era. " But they were not called the "Donald of Computer Programming", he looked up to someone else "One of the first times I was ever asked about the title of my books was in 1966, during the last previous ACM national meeting held in Southern California. This was before any of the books were published, and I recall having lunch with a friend at the convention hotel. He knew how conceited I was, already at that time, so he asked if I was going to call my books "An Introduction to Don Knuth." I replied that, on the contrary, I was naming the books after him. His name: Art Evans. (The Art of Computer Programming, in person.)
" "Always Mount a Scratch Monkey" https://www.acme.com/jef/netgems/scratch_monkey.html
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