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Amazing! If only Knuth could appreciate this progress in computer science and software engineering! May be in volume 7 he can write about Web Browsers, DOM and
by srw 18y ago
Amazing! If only Knuth could appreciate this progress in computer science and software engineering! May be in volume 7 he can write about Web Browsers, DOM and AJAX… he can even drop its MMIX and rewrote all his books using Javascript, the real assembler of the Web!
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
- sarvesh 18y agoKnuth doesn't write about a particular programming language for one and what relevance does it have to this story here? What Knuth has written is relevant to programming in general. He has reasons for using MMIX http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix.html. Really you should try reading at least a few chapters from his book.
- srw 18y agoIt's called irony. Everybody is talking about an offline version of gmail, as if such thing is a progress... I had being using offline mailers from the old Internet times. And about reading a few chapters from his book... don't make me cry, my life was spent on computer science research and I don't need to show any "credential" to you.