I read pieces of it during CS University that were applicable to whatever we were studying/implementing at the time. Got it form the library. Was worth it. A d

I read pieces of it during CS University that were applicable to whatever we were studying/implementing at the time. Got it form the library. Was worth it. A decade later I bought it because I wanted to understand something about the selection of a specific hash function for a hash table that every book was using and no one was explaining, everybody was just referencing Knuth. That function was used in my job (in fact, the hash table at work was exactly the one Knuth had proposed). While Knuth had an explanation for it, I was not happy with it. After a ton of online researching and even reading some papers from the 70's I found an understandable explanation in a blog post by a random not-famous programmer. One day I'll read it. But my Comic Book collection and Video Game backlog has been taking the priority for a while.