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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by pvg on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:13AM (#17463375)
Are you supposed to get everything in Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming on the first read?

The Art of Computer Programming is a reference work so this isn't as trenchant a counterpoint as you might have thought.

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Re:Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach by jason_s on Saturday July 07, 2018 @10:35AM (#17478625)
GEB is just as technically deep as TAOCP.
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