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Thank you for sharing! It might be a bit off-topic, but videos like this remind me why I fell in love with computers in the first place. Thank you!!
by illegalmemory 2y ago
Thank you for sharing! It might be a bit off-topic, but videos like this remind me why I fell in love with computers in the first place. Thank you!!
- gjvc 2y agoThe whole "let me put TAOCP on pause while I create TeX just to create it properly" story always fills me with awe.
- monobot12 2y agoMy takeaway is it's much easier to embark on huge side projects as a tenured professor.
- gjvc 2y agoyou completely missed the point
- WillAdams 2y agoAgreed. I'm also incredibly grateful --- I was gifted a NeXT Cube by my brother-in-law when I was in college studying graphic design, and I was incredibly put out by the paucity of nice typography features in Quark XPress and Aldus Pagemaker when I came across TeXview.app and remembered checking out the book _TeX and Metafont_ from the local college library when I was a senior in high school --- built that into a career and a series of presentations at TUG conferences where I got to meet him.
- varjag 2y agoThe 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