[PD-dev] Knuth [OT]

[Chris McCormick]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:36:38PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> 
> > "Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what
> > to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we
> > want a computer to do." -Donald Knuth
> 
> Well, that quote is p(r)etty idealism... What we want is not to program
> for the computers, nor to program for the programmers: what we want to
> program for, is the future merging of branches. That's it. No fuss about

What branches? Who is 'we'?

> it. Just thought it had to be said. Don't bother about Knuth. Don't worry 
> about Knuth.

You don't think Knuth ever contributed anything useful to computer
science?

Chris.

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