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This was his reply to a question asking him to have a bug bounty program like Knuth. We could have bankrupted Don Knuth when we first started automatically gen
by dude_abides 14y ago
This was his reply to a question asking him to have a bug bounty program like Knuth.
We could have bankrupted Don Knuth when we first started automatically generating TeX from Mathematica years ago!
Talk about humility..
- kitsune_ 14y agoStephen Wolfram isn't exactly known for his humility.
- baddox 14y agoWell, it's either true or it's not. I don't see how humility would change anything here.
- jsyedidia 14y agoIf they found bugs in TeX, they should have reported them to Knuth. If they didn't want to "bankrupt" him, there could have turned down Knuth's check or just not cashed it, like the vast majority of people who have received Knuth's checks for bug reports. I'm sure Knuth would have greatly appreciated receiving the bug reports (and in fact would still appreciate receiving them now, if in fact those bugs exist).
- taliesinb 14y agoYou seem not to be aware that he's joking.
- skeletonjelly 14y agoSarcasm is hard to portray in text. He's clearly really good at it.