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The TAoCP itself is a side project from his original goal of writing a book on compilers.
by varjag 2y ago
The TAoCP itself is a side project from his original goal of writing a book on compilers.
- blipvert 2y agoGotta shave some Yaks
- fuzztester 2y agoDid he complete the compilers book, or even start it? I know he has worked on TAoCP for a huge amount of time, and on TEX too.
- ronbrz 2y agoFrom what I understand, TAoCP is building up to that compilers book! When initially tasked with writing about compilers, he realized all the background necessary for building them and planned out these books as an overview of computational techniques that would be helpful to use. See the "future plans" section of his website: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html has volumes 6 and 7 as being on compilers.
- fuzztester 2y agodanke, freund