On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 03:37:58PM -0400, Peter Olson wrote: [cut]
> > I'm a fan of Donald Knuth as well. My funny story is that when I was in > college, I got an offer from Addison-Wesley to preorder the seven volume set > "The Art of Computer Programming" for the low. low price of $119. It's now > more than 40 years later and volumes 5, 6, and 7 are still missing :-) I'm > glad I didn't take the offer :) On the other hand it is terrifically cool > that he got so frustrated with the mechanics of typesetting that he developed > TeX. And METAFONT, for that matter, and the language (WEB) he used to write TeX and METAFONT. In my mind I have always compared Donald Knuth to a chimera with the head of Dante Alighieri, the body of Johannes Gutenberg, and the arms and legs of a medieval blacksmith. That's an amazing man. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
