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Knuth on Robert W Floyd
- gruseom 17y agoThis is a marvelous article, informative and touching at the same time, a joy to read. Thanks for reminding me why I still comb through HN looking for things like this. I don't even mind that it delayed my work this afternoon.
- anamax 17y agoKnuth mentions Floyd teaching an intro CS class at Stanford (CS106). At least one of those times, Floyd taught using SAIL macros and didn't much mention functions/procedures. (SAIL macros are syntactic and look a lot like procedures/functions, but the order of evaluation can be surprising.) This caused a bit of trouble when those students went on. Floyd was a serious Dig Dug player. (DD is an early arcade video game.)