Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth

Re:Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth by huhtenberg on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @10:23AM (#3186799)

Of all places on the Internet it was really odd to see Standford's site requiring Silverlight to watch its content. WTH, how could something like this happen?

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Re:Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth by anamax on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @12:19PM (#3187501)

Stanford is Stanford, and Knuth is Knuth, in part because both know what issues are important.

Silverlight is reasonable and has market share. Since their goal is to get distribution....

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Re:Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth by nobody31 on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @11:39AM (#3187276)

Presumably the greatest minds in computer science sat down and decided that silverlight was the optimum technology

Or perhaps they were suspended over a tank of piranha by an evil laughing Bill Gates somewhere in the basement of http://cs.stanford.edu/info/gates

Or perhaps they just out sourced the web design to the cheapest company who happened to use Silverlight.

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