Ask HN: Old Knuth Development Journal

3 points by blackle 3y ago ↗ HN

About 10 years ago I stumbled upon an alleged journal by Donald Knuth during the very early days of TeX development. This was basically just a text file with dates and notes. It was a fascinating look at what development was like on a timeshare system—iirc one entry maligned how slow the system was that evening.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about, and where I could find it again? Google is no help at all.

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svat 3y ago ↗

Run `texdoc errorlog`, or visit http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/knuth-pdf/errata/errorlog.pdf — published as Chapter 11 ("The error log of TeX") of the book (collection of papers) Literate Programming (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html), and it best makes sense if you also read the previous Chapter 10 "The errors of TeX" (DOI 10.1002/spe.4380190702, https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf).