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I feel like driving from Milwaukee to Pasadena 100 miles per day is the most Donald Knuth thing ever. IE, a huge task completed in the slowest and most delibera
by yellowstuff 6y ago
I feel like driving from Milwaukee to Pasadena 100 miles per day is the most Donald Knuth thing ever. IE, a huge task completed in the slowest and most deliberate way possible.
- svat 6y agoHa! I imagine the point was to spend a month writing the program mainly, while also doing a little driving during breaks. (BTW it appears that Milwaukee to Pasadena is about 2000 miles now, which works out to even less: ~70 miles a day. Or given that the interstate highway system was less developed in 1960, maybe it really was about 3000 miles then.)
- rurban 6y agoIt was a Volkswagen. In Summer. Through the desert probably. The cooler overheats constantly. You stop at every gas station, and you'd be lucky if there was one every 100 miles.