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Donald Knuth: A Life's Work Interrupted.
- Source :
- Communications of the ACM; Aug2008, Vol. 51 Issue 8, p31-35, 5p, 2 Color Photographs
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- The article presents an interview with computer scientist Donald Knuth. The emergence of structured programming in the 1970s awakened in him an intense desire to program, rather than just teach programming. A programming assignment he gave to graduate students increased his appreciation for the ambiguities and vagueness that can arise in trying to program a specification. He considers algorithm analysis to be his primary life's work.
- Subjects :
- COMPUTER scientists
STRUCTURED programming
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00010782
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Communications of the ACM
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 33662978
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1378704.1378715