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From: oz@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Subject: Re: Will this *thread* ever halt?
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 16:41:53 GMT

Dan Bernstein writes:

   > Those volumes are not out of favor, but they are out-of-date by a
   > decade and a half,

   Really?

Yes, 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?

If your silly response is any indication, you would still be staring
at my finger after I point to some of those algorithms, with no hope
of you ever discontinuing your semi-literate ramblings.

oz