Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer

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From: Joachim Durchholz
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 22:00

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seebs@solutions.solon.com wrote 18.03.96 on Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer:

> I mean, who can honestly claim Knuth *isn't* a hacker, in the traditional
> sense?

Umm, I'll grant Don Knuth is a hacker, and has advanced theory and  
practice in ways too numerous to mention here. But his style is horrific -  
you can't explain algorithms in a mixture of flow diagrams and assembler  
code. And TeX as a language is a nightmare, even if it is the best system  
available for automatic mathematical typesetting.

-Joachim

--
Im speaking for myself here.
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Date: 18 Mar 1996 23:00:00 +0100
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