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> So for those who are practical programmers and have gone down the Knuth TAOCP rabbit hole There's the rub. TAOCP is Computer Science. "Practical programmers"
by eyan 11y ago
> So for those who are practical programmers and have gone down the Knuth TAOCP rabbit hole
There's the rub. TAOCP is Computer Science. "Practical programmers" aren't even engineers. So yes. The books for your intended purpose aren't worth anything.
It will have worth when you are writing something 'serious' like compilers, kernels, or complicated games. CRUD apps, nah.
- mseebach 11y agoI don't know if it's intended, but I picked up a whiff of condescension from this comment. I think it's worthy of celebration that the field has come so far that we can have such a thing as "practical programmers" who achieve very significant things in their respective business fields, without having to know much if any theoretical computer science at all. Slight hyperbole: the CRUD app is basically the indoor sanitation of this century. This is facilitated by lots of brilliant people who DID read and understand TAoCP (or equivalent), and it's a credit to their brilliance that so many get so much done without reading it.