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I don't want Knuth to Robert Jordan/George RR Martin himself so I'm waiting for vol 5 to complete before purchasing the set
by eddof13 4y ago
I don't want Knuth to Robert Jordan/George RR Martin himself so I'm waiting for vol 5 to complete before purchasing the set
- gs17 4y agoThere's 6 and 7 planned too, might be a bit of a wait. It's a real shame he isn't likely to finish the series, I would really be interested in that final volume (compilers).
- jcranmer 4y agoThe website notes that 6 and 7 are "only if the things I want to say about those topics are still relevant and still haven't been said." This does make me think that he isn't particularly planning on working on these books at all, especially given that the timeline goes "volumes 4 & 5, revise volume 1-3, reader's digest 1-5, then maybe work on 6 & 7"
- llaolleh 4y agoImagine if we got an HBO adaptation of TAOCP.
- sophacles 4y agoThe show-runners would exercise some creative license, and we'd end up with things like o(n) being worse than o(n!) in the show, but not in the book. Even worse now that there's a video version of the classic - it's deviations from the text would start to be seen as "the better one" and the software bloat problem would dramatically intensify worldwide as everyone rearranged their algorithms.
- HowTheStoryEnds 4y agoYou mean N would break out of the Otriarchal grip of the system and be a strong, independent constant.
- sophacles 4y agoNo, I meant what I said.
- jcl 4y agoNo doubt it would be filled with gratuitous union-finding that wasn't present in the original.