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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by gowld on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:06PM (#22891932)
That doesn't relly make sense. Everyone's minmum is 0 (or negative) at something.

Knuth is famously proudly terrible at email and "keeping on top of things". Does that make him a failure? Of course not.

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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by kick on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:27PM (#22895364)
Knuth isn't "terrible" at electronic mail or keeping on top of things. He used electronic mail for decades. He's old. He doesn't want to use it anymore. So he doesn't.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

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