I saw this a while ago and always thought it was interesting: I initially thought Knuth was an Apple fan after watching a few of his lectures, but apparently he uses his Macbook only for trivial everyday tasks.
Some people take 5 semesters of theoretical computer science. I took 5 semesters of asm and hardware datasheet programming.
What you need to write a compiler is 5 asm course, not 5 theoretical computer science courses.
the fucken pretenders say "It compiles to a virtual machine, right? or you use a backend?"
I say, "No, I fucken know what a compiler is and I fucken wrote a compiler."
I took a compiler, an operating system and a data structures and digital logic and numeric methods and computer graphics and architecture courses, too.
"Remember, though, that my opinion on economic questions is highly suspect, since I’m just an educator and scientist. I understand almost nothing about the marketplace."
How wonderful to hear a person say that. Like, hey, I'm an expert at just this one field, not every field. Rare to see that attitude these days.
Yes, I appreciated that too. I wonder if the media has had an impact on this. In a TV interview for instance, it might be considered rude to refuse to answer a question.
I have been using my version of literate programming (markdown compiled with node : https://github.com/jostylr/literate-programming) for awhile now and I have to agree with him that it does become indispensable. I am already at the point that I can't imagine coding without it. Particularly now that I have embraced Vim and the fantastic outliner Voom.
Re-editable instead of reusable code struck me as right on target as well, though there is the issue of patches.
Thinking for oneself instead of following conventional wisdom seems one of the most important pieces of what ought to be conventional wisdom. It is a hard road to travel, though.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 33.5 ms ] threadFor every WM enthusiast here:
Screenshot of Knuth's setup: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/screen.jpeg
Knuth's fvwm2 config: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/programs/.fvwm2rc
What you need to write a compiler is 5 asm course, not 5 theoretical computer science courses.
the fucken pretenders say "It compiles to a virtual machine, right? or you use a backend?"
I say, "No, I fucken know what a compiler is and I fucken wrote a compiler."
I took a compiler, an operating system and a data structures and digital logic and numeric methods and computer graphics and architecture courses, too.
They don't believe me.
http://www.templeos.org/files/ASU_Transcripts.pdf
CSC226 CSC326: x86 asm
CSE421 CSE422 CSE523: M6800 asm
http://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.knuth/1
How wonderful to hear a person say that. Like, hey, I'm an expert at just this one field, not every field. Rare to see that attitude these days.
Ha !
Re-editable instead of reusable code struck me as right on target as well, though there is the issue of patches.
Thinking for oneself instead of following conventional wisdom seems one of the most important pieces of what ought to be conventional wisdom. It is a hard road to travel, though.