hmm; "[citation needed]", although I've already found something via Wikipedia: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q2/msg00419.html https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/19

hmm; "[citation needed]", although I've already found something via Wikipedia: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q2/msg00419.html https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q2/msg00419.html "[...] Knuth definitely wrote most of the code himself, at least for the Metafont re-write, for which I have pesonal knowledge. However, some of his students (such as Michael Plass and John Hobby) did work on the algorithms used in TeX and Metafont. He also did have a programmer (David something) working for him at one point, but not as I recall at the time of the Metafont re-write." That said, some solid source on the earliest phases, as well as on particulars of the specific "algorithms", would be nice to learn.