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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Quick on one the Errors of TeX and Knuth
Message-ID: <5374@eos.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 89 00:20:44 GMT
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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Surprise!  I ran into Knuth last evening at the 5th annual Hacker's
Conference.  Ruff informs me that he sent mail to Knuth that this duiscussion
was talking place.  I might also be able to relay short messages or
comments if mailed to me in the next 24 hours.

Unfortunately, Ames decided to drop its subscription to S/W P&E, so I've
still not seen the paper.

I think that Knuth has a something of an aura around him.  I especially
like the CACM Programming Pearls Column where Knuth and I believe Mike Lesk
at Bell Labs [Guest Oysters] tackled the same problem in two different ways
(Pascal-style and Unix style).  It made for an interesting side by side
comparison.

Another gross generalization from

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