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Knuth on email
- petercooper 16y agoKnuth wrote this six years ago and the war has already been won. Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all use "email" and if you Google for "e-mail" it says "Did you mean email?" and "e-mail" returns 3.2bn results in Google vs 5.9bn for "email". I still use the "old" style though, mostly out of habit. But really old people I know still have the same old fashioned handwriting and language habits they picked up in the 1950s. It's not necessary to keep changing, though if you're a business, you need to stay on top of this if only for your customers' sakes.
- helwr 16y agoyes, I brought it up mostly because of "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study."
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