🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <19864@helios.TAMU.EDU>, byron@donald.tamu.edu (Byron
Rakitzis) writes:

> In article <1991Aug5.143147.4425@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@sp2.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
> >schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod) writes:
> >>It would be interesting to know how much ``buckets of money'' Knuth
> >>has paid to people which had find errors in TeX, MF, or one of the
> >>books.
> 
> >My guess is almost zero. If I would have a check written out
> >by Don Knuth I would never cash it. Just proudly display
> >it. And I guess that is what happens in general.
> >After all the amounts of money are not that large.
> 
> The story goes that when Einstein lived in Princeton, NJ, he would
> write letters to the local storekeepers asking them to cash the checks
> he had written so that he could balance his checkbook!
> 
> It seems DEK's checks are being treasured in much the same way.
> 
> I certainly know I'm not going to cash my check from DEK!

Perhaps we should ask Chris Thompson? He got so many checkes ;-)

But keep in mind what was the reason behind my original posting: The
promise to pay money for every found error (and not only for errors
in the program but for typos in the user manual!) is a quality
measurement most, if not all, systems I know of can not conquer [sp?].

btw, on the topic of how much:

% A reward of $327.68 will be paid to the first finder of any remaining bug,
	      ^^^^^^^
% not counting changes introduced after August 1989.

How much the reward for TeX 3 bugs is now -- don't know at the
moment. (I may post it sometime, I've found an error a few weeks ago :-)

--
Joachim

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Joachim Schrod				Email: xitijsch@ddathd21.bitnet
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany