2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]

Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf] by tasseff on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:06PM (#23158279)

Anyone else find it funny that the first paragraph of a Knuth Prize announcement writes "treat like alike" instead of ``treat like alike?''

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Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf] by svat on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:13PM (#23162289)

More accurately, the typeset output has ”treat like alike” instead of “treat like alike”, which suggests that the TeX input (most likely) had "treat like alike" instead of ``treat like alike?''. Some historical context that led to features like this (or gotchas, today) in TeX and other systems of the time is here: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

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Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf] by zaroth on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:26AM (#23163757)

I kept reading and re-reading 'treat' - 'like' - 'alike' trying to figure out where the difference was.

For those left wondering -- it's the first double-quotation mark leaning the wrong way in TFA.

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Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf] by globular-toast on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:34PM (#23159360)

That is pretty funny. An easy way to catch a junior TeXnician.

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