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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Will this *thread* ever halt?
Message-ID: <12358.Jun2400.03.5891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 24 Jun 91 00:03:58 GMT
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In article <OZ.91Jun23145702@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca> oz@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
  [ on Knuth's Art of Computer Programming ]
> Those volumes are not out of favor, but they are out-of-date by a
> decade and a half,

Really? Within the subject matter covered by volumes 1 through 3, can
you name any important algorithm (i.e., algorithm used by a significant
percentage of today's programmers) not mentioned by Knuth? Can you name
an important field---newer than 1973, or 1981 for the second volume---
that Knuth doesn't cover but that would logically fit into his books?
(Keep in mind that compilers, for example, will be covered in a later
volume if Knuth ever stops working on TeX.) I'm listening.

---Dan