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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by laichzeit0 on Monday May 23, 2022 @11:42PM (#31487737)
If I where to ask “So what should he have used instead?” it would quickly derail this thread. There would be no consensus. Knuth probably foresaw this exact problem and more.
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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:37AM (#31503078)
Yeah, if you read the intro to Volume 1, he specifically calls this out as an issue. I personally think he's taking a subtle dig at Numerical Recipes here, which did take the "modern" language approach.
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Re:Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happine... by DeathArrow on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:55AM (#31488484)
Half of people would say Javascript and the other half Python. :)

Yes, I know those languages didn't exist at the time Knuth was forging his books.

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