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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
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Subject: Re: Who is Knuth? -- the amazing answer!
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 15:54:07 EST
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> I don't know whether Knuth is ever going to finish the series -- he
> originally intended seven volumes, but I hear rumours that the number is
> going to change.  And I hear rumours that he is never going to get back to
> the project.  He has become heavily involved in the computer typesetting
> of mathematics -- the result of which was TeX, a text-formatter designed
> for typesetting mathematics.

Well, Knuth got involved with TeX because he couldn't find a typesetter
to typeset the rest of his volumes... so hopefully once he gets TeX done
he will finish writing those volumes... I mean, the ones he hasn't written
yet are the interesting ones... :-)

(Now if only he'd get rid of MIX)...

(How could someone who writes all his example-algorithms in assembly language
write a typesetter with which it is so hard to typeset assembly language
programs, anyhow?)
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