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Why does Donald Knuth write TAOCP using assembly language?
I don't hate using assembly language, since I have written some in my os course. But obviously, assembly language lacks abstraction, you have to pay more attention to the details.
Is assembly ...
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Why does Knuth forbid the reading of pre-chapter quotations in The Art of Computer Programming?
After the preface to The Art of Computer Programming is the Procedure for Reading This Set of Books.
Step 4 is to begin reading Chapter N, with the specific instruction to "not read the quotations ...
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What background is needed to understand The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A?
I recently made the investment in the newly-printed four-volume set of Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Like this poster, I probably do not have the time right now to read the entire ...
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Don Knuth and MMIXAL vs. Chuck Moore and Forth — Algorithms and Ideal Machines — was there cross-pollination / influence in their ideas / work? [closed]
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To what extent is it known (or believed) that Chuck Moore and Don Knuth had influence on each other's thoughts on ideal machines, or their work on algorithms?
I'm interested in citations, ...
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TAOCP online resource
I am a CS student, and am really astonished that I didn't know about Donald Knuth and his TAoCP. Now that I do, I really look forward to diving into it. Would going for the entire volume 4 be a good ...
