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byrneseyeview
on Dec 25, 2008
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The Best Program according to Don Knuth
With all these fragmentary, unsourced anecdotes about Donald Knuth, one would think he hadn't given numerous interviews and written several actual books.
rams
on Dec 25, 2008
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unsourced ? It's right here:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/001.html
and linked from the post as well. And it's Andy Hertzfeld one of the original Mac developers who related this incident. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Hertzfeld
)
What's wrong per se with anecdotes ? It's a great part of the craftsman tradition.
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