Alter | 88 Jahre |
Geburtsdatum | Montag, 10. Januar 1938 |
Geburtsort | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Donald Ervin „Don“ Knuth [kəˈnuːθ] ist ein US-amerikanischer Informatiker. Er ist emeritierter Professor an der Stanford University, Autor des Standardwerks The Art of Computer Programming und Urheber des Textsatzsystems TeX. Er erhielt 1974 den Turing Award. |
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
