15 Dec
2020
15 Dec
'20
5:45 p.m.
Off topic, but too much fun to pass up.
> You wrote your algorithm in Pascal, debugged it,
and then rewrote it in your favourite language (in my case, ALGOL-W).
Now why didn't Don Knuth think of that for TeX?
I'm glad he didn't. He might have written it in Mix. Knuth once said
he didn't believe in higher-level languages. Of course he knew more
about them than anybody else and was CACM's associate editor for the
subject--like a minister who doesn't believe in God.
Doug