[OS X TeX] NYTimes: The Yoda of Silicon Valley

[David Derbes]

It’s a very good article and TeX gets more than a mention. I wrote the author to say that she should have included a link to the TeX Showcase (which I provided) in the electronic edition, and also should have mentioned that (La)TeX is absolutely free software. It was an extraordinary gift to us all. (I also told her about the arXiv, which she may not know about…)

David Derbes
U of Chicago Laboratory Schools

On Dec 17, 2018, at 14:13, Herb Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com<mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>> wrote:

Here's a story from The New York Times that I thought you'd find interesting:

Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”

Read More...<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share>

Get The New York Times on your mobile device<https://www.nytimes.com/services/mobile/apps/>


Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
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