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Ask HN: What Was Knuth's "Earthshaking Announcement"?

6 points by mikecane 16y ago

It was an item here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1470996 -- I've Googled and it seems there's actually nothing?

sbe 16y ago
iTex. -- Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound." -- Source: http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/01/2153202/Stop-the-Math-Presss-Presses-mdash-Knuth-Announces-iTex http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/01/2153202/Stop-the-...
- mikecane 16y ago
  This is what happens when I search for "Donald E. Knuth" in quotes at Google. It didn't pick up Slashdot because I was too literal. Thanks!
- rick_2047 16y ago
  The link in the article is to a tweet which has a hashtag #PARODY. Makes it hard to believe.
RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
I don't have a definitive answer for you, but here are some more references: http://searchyc.com/earthshaking?sort=by_date http://searchyc.com/earthshaking?sort=by_date http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477213 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477213 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476852 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476852
uptown 16y ago
Here's the follow-up HackerNews discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477213 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477213