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Re:Don Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to a... by 2devnull on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:55AM (#39745426)
The language changes, but more importantly students backgrounds and facility with the English language changes. Not that dumbing down the text or replacing old timey words should cost much, but cost disease and all that.
Re:Don Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to a... by skeaker on Monday March 18, 2024 @01:36PM (#39747387)
Granted, but they definitely do not change enough to warrant a new edition every year. This can and has been experimentally confirmed by countless students even before Library Genesis simply by showing up to class with an old edition of the textbook and still learning the material fine.