今天是Knuth的70壽辰

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好像太八卦了一點,不過這是Knuth ,我的終極偶像啊。就算他沒有寫註定留名青史的The Art of Computer Programming(是滴,俺有空還在讀),就算他不是最早讓人們認識到演算法也可以定量嚴格分析(沒有演算法分析,哪裡有現代電腦科學囁?)的人,就算他沒有發明和改進LR解析方法,就算他不是最早獨立實現Algo編譯器的人,就算他不是程式設計語言經驗研究方法的奠基人,就算他沒有提出Attribute Grammar,只看他10年間寫出免費排版軟體TeX(讀Tek哈)和字型軟體METAFONT,單槍匹馬滅掉一個行業:科技出版物人肉排版,就足以讓人誠服。這種歐拉式的文藝複興男不是每個世紀都有的。

還是Lance Fortnow總結得好:Knuth的態度是I want to solve problem X and I'll use whatever math I need to solve it, even if I have to develop it myself.

Update: 看來洒家比較溫和。看看Mark C.C的暴力文字:If you don't know who Knuth is, then you're not a programmer. If you're a programmer and you don't know who Knuth is, well... I have no idea what rock you've been hiding under, but you should probably be fired.

另外這裡有一堆串連供八卦人士享用。這些熱情充沛的文字讀來極富樂趣,強烈推薦。看得俺一激動,買了Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer ScientistsSelected Papers on Computer Science ,和Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

 

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