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...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 8; pp. 31 - 36 |
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| Format: | Interview |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Aug2008
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| Summary: | 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 ambiguities and vagueness that can arise in trying to program a specification. He considers algorithm analysis to be his primary life's work. |
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