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." Contrast
the literature. See also bible. There is a Donald
Knuth home page at
http://www-cs-faculty.Stanford.EDU/~knuth.
[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." Contrast
the literature. See also bible. There is a Donald
Knuth home page at
http://www-cs-faculty.Stanford.EDU/~knuth.
Related:
- Knuth: /knooth/ [Donald E. Knuth's "The Art of Computer
Programming"] n.
Mythically, the reference that answers all questions... - TeX /tekh/ n.
An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by
Donald E.
Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community... - The difference between art and science is that science is what we
understand well enough to explain to a computer.
Art is everything else. -- Donald Knuth,... - 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,... - Quote #29
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald... - Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it. -- Donald... - The three dots '...' here suppress a lot of detail -
maybe I should have used four dots. -- Donald... - Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald...
From the same category:
- FITNR // adj.
[Thinking Machines, Inc.] Fixed In The
Next Release.
A written-only notation attached to bug reports. ... - EOF /E-O-F/ n.
[abbreviation, `End Of File']
1.
[techspeak] The out-of-band value returned by C's ... - RSN /R-S-N/ adj.
See Real Soon Now... - sanity check n.
[very common] 1. The act of checking a
piece of code (or anything else,
e.g., a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes... - evil adj.
As used by hackers, implies that some system,
program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned...
