Interesting observation, but I am not sure what your point is in this thread. Knuth understood the distinction and selected his words intentionally. "When I sp

Interesting observation, but I am not sure what your point is in this thread. Knuth understood the distinction and selected his words intentionally. "When I speak about computer programming as an art, I am thinking primarily of it as an art _form_, in an aesthetic sense. The chief goal of my work as educator and author is to help people learn how to write _beautiful programs_."