This is Donald E. Knuth

This is Donald E. Knuth
Say something nice about him

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He wrote a nice book about Surreal Numbers.

release your last book before dying

He is old and sure about to die

He's not dead yet.

he is not steven jobs nor bill gates

The master of us all.

He hates both "software engineering" and object oriented programming

He wrote The Art of Cheese Pizza

Old, wise, learned man. Respect.

he looks white

>The problem that I have with them today is that... C++ is too complicated. At the moment, it's impossible for me to write portable code that I believe would work on lots of different systems, unless I avoid all exotic features. Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste. But each user of C++ has a favorite subset, and that's fine.
Was Knuth right about C++ already in 1993?

Yeah, Ken Thompson also was right about C++ as well when he was able to use it at Bell labs as it was being created.

He looks happy

He made TeX. TeX is nice.

He made a shitty HTML rip off called Latex.

he looks like one of my favorite animals: the turtle.

fuck him and fuck his family I hope they all BURN IN HELL.
fuck I hate tex.

>hurr durr it's a layout description language
>HURR BUT IT'S ALSO TURING COMPLETE
>MAXIMUM OVER-DURR BUT IT'S TURBO CONVOLUTED TO ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING MEANINGFUL IN IT

Ka-nuth or Nuth?

Nuth

So what would be the ideal programming language?

Haskell

What about Python?

Not even close to ideal

extremely based: practically made the field of algorithmic analysis, created TeX, knows goto statements are useful, has written many excellent textbooks, invented literate programming, is Christian, plays the organ, etc...

It's shit.

Ganooth loonix

Found the brainlet

t. has never written a latex package