20 posts tagged Donald Knuth

Interview with Donald Knuth Linux Today Mon, 04/28/2008 - 12:15 informIT: "Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend

Check out this interview of the Don by InformIT.com. I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for reusable code. To me, “re-editable code” is much, much better than an untouchable black box or toolkit. I could go on and on about this.

Via Brad DeLong, I learnt about this interview of Andrew Binstock with Knuth, in which, as the one paragraph summary at the beginning indicates Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in

I recently stumbled across a rather cool website called Peoples Archive. It has tons of short videos with “the world’s greatest thinkers, creators, and achievers.” While some of the categories seem to have sparser coverage than others, it’s still a wonderful idea (sort of like TED but in miniature),

If you are a progammer chances are good that you have heard something about Donald Knuth creator of the books The Art of Computer Progamming. InformIT.com has an interview with him. Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture,

During the writing of Rebel Code I had the privilege of talking to nearly all of the world's top hackers. Among those, Donald Knuth is pretty much at the apex, certainly in the world of computer science. His interviews are all-too rare these days, not least because he is racing against time to write as much of his magnum opus, The Art of Computer Programming, as he can.

An Interview with Donald Knuth where he talks about open source, reusable code, Linux, and other stuff: …authors these days often introduce arcane methods that outperform the simpler techniques only when the problem size exceeds the number of protons in the universe.

An Interview with Donald Knuth where he talks about open source, reusable code, Linux, and other stuff: …authors these days often introduce arcane methods that outperform the simpler techniques only when the problem size exceeds the number of protons in the universe.

eldavojohn writes "You may be familiar with Donald Knuth from his famous Art of Computer Programming books but he's also the father of TeX and, arguably, one of the founders of open source. There's an interesting interview where he says a lot of stuff I wouldn't have predicted.

The tale of how Donald Knuth took a decade off from writing The Art of Computer Programming to create the TeX typesetting language is one of the great legends of computer science. The appearance of a third edition of The Art of Computer Programming — typeset in you will never guess what! — is therefore a landmark event.