{"id":470,"date":"2009-10-20T16:32:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T21:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2009-10-20T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T21:32:44","slug":"knuth-can-be-out-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/knuth-can-be-out-of-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Knuth can be Out of Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u2026Knuth has a terrible track record, bringing us <span style=\"font-family: cmr10, serif\">T<span style=\"vertical-align:-0.5ex;margin-left:-0.1667em;margin-right:-0.125em;text-transform:uppercase\">e<\/span>X<\/span>, which is a great typesetting language, but impossible to read, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0201485419?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=vincgabl-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0201485419\">a three-volume set of great algorithms<\/a> written in some of the most impenetrable, quirky pseudocode you\u2019re ever likely to see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/lingpipe-blog.com\/2009\/10\/15\/the-futility-of-commenting-code\/\">lingpipe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There, it&#8217;s been said. But let <a href=\"http:\/\/geekz.co.uk\/shop\/store\/show\/knuth-tshirt\">the posse<\/a> note I wasn&#8217;t technically the one to do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Knuth has a terrible track record, bringing us TeX, which is a great typesetting language, but impossible to read, and a three-volume set of great algorithms written in some of the most impenetrable, quirky pseudocode you\u2019re ever likely to see. &#8212;lingpipe There, it&#8217;s been said. But let the posse note I wasn&#8217;t technically the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4,24],"tags":[513,242,514],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-programming","category-quotes","tag-knuth","tag-programming-style","tag-readability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}