> It is now... but I kind of feel like it wasn't 40 years ago. The computing world was certainly smaller then. But I remember finding Volume 1 of 'The Art of C

> It is now... but I kind of feel like it wasn't 40 years ago. The computing world was certainly smaller then. But I remember finding Volume 1 of 'The Art of Computer Programming' in my community college library in the Spring of 1983 (so, it would've been a 70's edition) and Knuth said something to the effect of it being difficult to keep up with such a rapidly expanding field. My notion is that even the best programmers even 40 years ago had a hard time keeping up.