Are Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" books still worth reading?

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From: Jeff Brooks
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:13

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I've recently completed my first couple of classed towards a Masters in CS
and was told by one of my professors that Knuth's multi-volume set of books
"The Art of Computer Programming" are THE classic computer science books.

My questions are, are these books still worth reading or are they outdated?
The copy of volume 1 I found has a copyright date of 1973, so, should I
just read them as a historical reference or is most of the technical content
still applicable to today's programming methods?

Thanks in advance for your opinion or any other references that you can
recommend instead.

--Jeff Brooks
  CS expert wanabee

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