>You might be interested in the classic McIlroy-Knuth dialogue: Yes, that was a good article. The comments on the post were interesting too. Saw it a while ago

>You might be interested in the classic McIlroy-Knuth dialogue: Yes, that was a good article. The comments on the post were interesting too. Saw it a while ago, and for fun, wrote two quick solutions for the problem, in Python and shell: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/the-bentley-knuth-problem-and-solutions.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/the-bentley-knuth-problem-... A reader, Veky, wrote an interesting comment on my post too.