eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (10/14/89)
Surprise! I ran into Knuth last evening at the 5th annual Hacker's
Conference. Ruff informs me that he sent mail to Knuth that this duiscussion
was talking place. I might also be able to relay short messages or
comments if mailed to me in the next 24 hours.
Unfortunately, Ames decided to drop its subscription to S/W P&E, so I've
still not seen the paper.
I think that Knuth has a something of an aura around him. I especially
like the CACM Programming Pearls Column where Knuth and I believe Mike Lesk
at Bell Labs [Guest Oysters] tackled the same problem in two different ways
(Pascal-style and Unix style). It made for an interesting side by side
comparison.
Another gross generalization from
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov
resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
"You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
"If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology."
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