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With all these fragmentary, unsourced anecdotes about Donald Knuth, one would think he hadn't given numerous interviews and written several actual books.
by byrneseyeview 18y ago
With all these fragmentary, unsourced anecdotes about Donald Knuth, one would think he hadn't given numerous interviews and written several actual books.
- rams 18y agounsourced ? It's right here: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/001.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/001.html and linked from the post as well. And it's Andy Hertzfeld one of the original Mac developers who related this incident. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Hertzfeld http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Hertzfeld) What's wrong per se with anecdotes ? It's a great part of the craftsman tradition.