Donald Knuth: A Life's Work Interrupted.

The article presents an interview with computer scientist Donald Knuth. The emergence of structured programming in the 1970s awakened in him an intense desire to program, rather than just teach programming. A programming assignment he gave to graduate students increased his appreciation for the ambi...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 8; pp. 31 - 36
Autor principal: Shustek, Len
Formato: Interview
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2008
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