Note from Don Knuth – bug(s) in MetaPost?

Re:Note from Don Knuth – bug(s) in MetaPost? by KiwiCoder on Thursday January 16, 2014 @05:14AM (#7068771)

OK, so Dr. Knuth is alive and well, and reporting a bug. Is there more to this that I'm not seeing?

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Re:Note from Don Knuth – bug(s) in MetaPost? by duaneb on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:58AM (#7069676)

MetaFont and TeX are both known for being bug-free because Knuth offered cash rewards for finding them—famously, he no longer does this because he had issues with people not cashing his checks. So it's highly unusual to find bugs, and is generally considered newsworthy these days.

EDIT: MetaPost -> MetaFont

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Re:Note from Don Knuth – bug(s) in MetaPost? by ronaldx on Thursday January 16, 2014 @12:11PM (#7070708)

> he no longer does this because he had issues with people not cashing his checks.

Slight correction - he had issues with people attacking his checking accounts: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html

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Re:Note from Don Knuth – bug(s) in MetaPost? by chj on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:31AM (#7069877)

I think you meant MetaFont.

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Re:Note from Don Knuth – bug(s) in MetaPost? by cevn on Thursday January 16, 2014 @07:42AM (#7069026)

Yeah, not exactly sure this is newsworthy. He's not even reporting a bug, just responding to one.

Keep being alive Dr. Knuth.

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