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My only gripe with TAOCP is its usage of MMIX.
by orlp 4y ago
My only gripe with TAOCP is its usage of MMIX.
- DeathArrow 4y agoYep, at least he could use an OOP language, and some niceties like builders, decorators, factories, 15 layers of abstraction and indirection so everybody knows it's pro grade stuff. :)
- laichzeit0 4y agoIf I where to ask “So what should he have used instead?” it would quickly derail this thread. There would be no consensus. Knuth probably foresaw this exact problem and more.
- DeathArrow 4y agoHalf of people would say Javascript and the other half Python. :) Yes, I know those languages didn't exist at the time Knuth was forging his books.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoYeah, if you read the intro to Volume 1, he specifically calls this out as an issue. I personally think he's taking a subtle dig at Numerical Recipes here, which did take the "modern" language approach.