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[Axiom-developer] ACM interviews Knuth
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[Axiom-developer] ACM interviews Knuth |
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Thu, 5 Jun 2014 10:56:12 -0500 |
>From the ACM Bulletin: Thursday, June 5, 2014:
Today's Topic: *People of ACM: Donald Knuth
Question:
As a founding artist of computer science and a proponent of elegance
in programming, what advice would you give to young people considering
careers in computing?
Answer:
Dear young person, if you are a geek, the world needs you, and you
will never run out of opportunities to apply your talents. I urge you
to take a close look at "literate programming"; it's a way to write
programs that makes me incredibly happy, several times each week. My
book The Stanford GraphBase
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=164984&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE
contains several dozen short examples of programs written in that
style, intended to be read by humans first and machines next.
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