> Look, taking on one or the other of Conway or Knuth on a topic like this would be a sobering prospect, but both of them at once? Maybe you should be phrasing

> Look, taking on one or the other of Conway or Knuth on a topic like this would be a sobering prospect, but both of them at once? Maybe you should be phrasing your "objections" in the form of questions. By the way, after having noticed that the conversation in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952290 tended to involve frequent (what seemed to me to be) appeals to authority, which I think do not belong in mathematical discussion, I wanted to thank you for your measured tone: not "don't question these lofty personalities", but rather explicitly "do question them" (rather than assuming out of hand that an apparent objection is an actual one).