Gautier
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Re: Computing a * b - c * d
Posted:
Dec 11, 2000 10:13 AM
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Dennis Voss:
> Are you refering to "The Art of Computer Programming" ?
> Well, he did a great job with it. Yes, indeed. He wrote great books
> but made it worst when using MIX for showing the algorithms.
> Oh, I just need to learn a new programming language just to understand
> the examples. Really, it's like teaching someone Ada just to show him to
> create operators. Of the world codes in Ada, sure. The next thing would
> be Lisp just for fun. It's not that no one uses these languages, but todays
> languages aren't Ada, Lisp or MIX - no. They carry names such as
> C, C++ or Java. Also, would he do it in C, there would be more people
> understanding him.
What is the problem ? C was out in the late 1960s, at the same time
as Knuth's books. Do you really believe there aren't newer things than
#include and makefiles ?! You seem to reverse chronology. Remember that
today's success of C, COBOL or Fortran and their OO/Visual extensions
is due to their old age!
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