> Knuth is making backwards incompatible changes to fix bugs in something he wrote 54 years ago (TAOCP volume 1, 1968)!
And mine:
Apart from the care Knuth takes, what's remarkable is that he has basically put out a permanent invitation to a DDoS on his time and attention—everyone in the world is invited to contact him about every word he has ever written—and somehow still continues to produce new material.
From Wilf's toast/roast of Knuth (https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/website/dek.pdf):
“[…]your letter will be placed on a stack that already has 5,379 letters that reached him before yours did,[…] while he completes his latest additions to 47 new manuscripts and 311 revisions of already existing books.”
> Knuth is making backwards incompatible changes to fix bugs in something he wrote 54 years ago (TAOCP volume 1, 1968)!
And mine:
Apart from the care Knuth takes, what's remarkable is that he has basically put out a permanent invitation to a DDoS on his time and attention—everyone in the world is invited to contact him about every word he has ever written—and somehow still continues to produce new material.
From Wilf's toast/roast of Knuth (https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/website/dek.pdf): “[…]your letter will be placed on a stack that already has 5,379 letters that reached him before yours did,[…] while he completes his latest additions to 47 new manuscripts and 311 revisions of already existing books.”