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A comment on Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]. Parent comment

Re:Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Co... by varjag on Friday February 07, 2025 @02:40PM (#42976625)
The TAoCP itself is a side project from his original goal of writing a book on compilers.
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Re:Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Co... by blipvert on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:24PM (#42977065)
Gotta shave some Yaks
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Re:Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Co... by fuzztester on Friday February 07, 2025 @05:07PM (#42978058)
Did he complete the compilers book, or even start it? I know he has worked on TAoCP for a huge amount of time, and on TEX too.
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Re:Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Co... by ronbrz on Friday February 07, 2025 @09:11PM (#42979710)
From what I understand, TAoCP is building up to that compilers book! When initially tasked with writing about compilers, he realized all the background necessary for building them and planned out these books as an overview of computational techniques that would be helpful to use.

See the "future plans" section of his website: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html has volumes 6 and 7 as being on compilers.

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Re:Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Co... by fuzztester on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:48PM (#43006857)
danke, freund
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