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To be honest, it's a bit weird to judge a man on the basis of a joke he made over 40 years ago.
by pdw 6y ago
To be honest, it's a bit weird to judge a man on the basis of a joke he made over 40 years ago.
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- owenversteeg 6y agoNow, I certainly wouldn't judge someone based on an out of comment snippet from nearly a half century ago, but Knuth has been portraying himself in a less-programmery, more CS-and-teacher-y way for forever, including interviews from last year. And I think he's being honest - that is who he is. But being a programmer and a computer scientist -are- two very different things. Simply in his daily activities over the last sixty years, Knuth has been writing tens of thousands of pages, doing a lot of math, diving deep into computer science topics. (That is not what I do in my employment as a programmer.) This guy has been sitting behind a keyboard and writing code. (That is what I do.)