[PD-dev] Knuth [OT]

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Fri Dec 2 10:25:45 CET 2005


On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Chris McCormick wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:36:38PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > 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'?

I'm referring to devel_0_39 vs MAIN... in CVS

"we" is those who work on devel_0_39.

> > 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?

Don't take it literally. I was only talking about one quote of Knuth. See 
other posts about that quote of Knuth on pd-dev, pd-list and pd-ot, in 
the last week or two.

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