Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!oz From: oz@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) Subject: Re: Will this *thread* ever halt? In-Reply-To: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu's message of 22 Jun 91 19: 22:44 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development References: <1991Jun18.172115.7185@clipper.ingr.com> <4457.Jun2021.35.1991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <29254.Jun2219.22.4491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1991 19:57:01 GMT Dan Bernstein writes: Anyone who reads Knuth (which, I gather, has fallen out of favor among computer scientists, as their students no longer know enough math to understand the first two pages) will find out ... Those volumes are not out of favor, but they are out-of-date by a decade and a half, not to mention the use a prehistoric notation to illustrate (and I use the term loosely) some of the algorithms. Actually, exhaustive math and detail are the things that make the boring "mix" scraps almost tolerable. oz --- Often it is means that justify ends: Goals | email: oz@nexus.yorku.ca advance technique and technique survives even | phone: 416-736-5257 x 33976 when goal structures crumble. -- A. J. Perlis | other: oz@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca