Happy Birthday Mr. Knuth
I was going to write something longer yesterday on Donald Knuth's 70th
birthday, but Jeff at Coding Horror did a great job already. That's my
bonus for being too busy to blog on the actual birthday.
Knuth's Art of Computer Programming has probably been the most
influential programming book for me, and its advice is extremely
useful to this day. If you program computers even a little bit, you
should read these books. They are far more valuable than
language-specific manuals.
Knuth is firmly on the side of programming as art, which I fully
share. Any time someone tries to reduce programming into a factory or
drone sort of model, where if you "fully spec it out" the
implementation is "trivial," a little bird dies somewhere and I get
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