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Always Remember, However, That There's Usually A Simpler And Better Way To Do Something Than The First Way That Pops Into Your Head.
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Always remember, however, that there's usually a simpler and better way
to do something than the first way that pops into your head.
-- Donald E. Knuth, "TeXbook"
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Remember your place, programmer, that way you may keep your head.
TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
crunch 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
That's always the way when you discover something new
everyone thinks you're crazy. -- Evelyn E. Smith...
Knuth /ka-nooth'/ n. [Donald E. Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming"] Mythically, the reference that answers all questions about data structures or algorithms.
A safe answer when you do not know: "I think you can find that in Knuth....
One way to better your lot is to do a lot better...
Knuth: /knooth/ [Donald E. Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming"] n.
Mythically, the reference that answers all questions about data structures or algorithms....