NY Times article about Donald Knuth

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Ellen Ullman <ullman () well com>
> Subject: NY Times article about Donald Knuth
> Date: December 18, 2018 6:21:26 JST
> To: dave <dave () farber net>
> Reply-To: Ellen Ullman <ullman () well com>
>
> Dave, 
> For IP if you wish.
>
> This piece about Donald Knuth comes from the New York Times Science section, titled (unfortunately) The Yoga of 
> Silicon Valley: Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, "The Art of 
> Computer Programming."
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage
>
> I chose the short except below because it expresses a view of programming that has gotten lost, perhaps necessarily, 
> in the age of machine learning:
>
> "Following Dr. Knuth’s doctrine helps to ward off moronry. He is known for introducing the notion of “literate 
> programming,” emphasizing the importance of writing code that is readable by humans as well as computers — a notion 
> that nowadays seems almost twee."




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