[TUHS] Bugs in V6 'dcheck'
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Sun Jun 1 02:03:02 AEST 2014
Norman Wilson scripsit:
> (To me, anyway. Back in the 1980s, when I was at Bell Labs,
> SP&E published a paper by Don Knuth discussing all the many
> bugs found in TeX, including some statistical analysis. I
> thought it fascinating and revealing and think reading it
> made me a better programmer. Rob Pike thought it was terribly
> boring and shouldn't have been published. Decidedly different
> viewpoints.)
I agree that "The Errors of TeX" was an excellent article. Mr. Pike is
well-known to be, mmmm, easily bored. On the other hand, his sense of
humor isn't to everyone's taste, either.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
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