The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth is famed artwork of a literature on Computer Science.
What are some other books in Computer Science which goes to similar depths and breadths like Donald Knuth?? (Could be in any field or domain relating to Computer Science)
Hi, I am reading through the art of computer programming and I can't wrap my head around the way bytes are treated.
It is stated that each byte holds an undefined amount of information, the only known thing is that we shouldn't write programs that deal with more than 64 values in each byte.
Ok, so far so good, let's consider the following case:
Rx = |0|0|0|9'9| (last 2 bytes hold the value 99, since we don't know how much information a byte can store, we can't know the exact value of each byte)
If I do an AX right circular shift, how should the last byte behave? I don't know exactly what its contents are so I can't know what the leftmost byte of the A register will have after the shift.
We interviewed Professor Donald Knuth in Brno last week. We didn't forget to ask him the famous XKCD-inspired question :-)
The whole interview had around 90 minutes and we think it's worth reading in its entirety. That is why we also published the English version (we are a Czech magazine).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJYUAK3GgP4 at the 2h mark.
He talks about Forth earlier, with his usual "nobody understands it like me" tone.
I watched one of Craig's supercomputing lectures where he read a double variable declaration in a C++ source code file (presented in a Word document) as a command to double a number.
Is there any evidence that Craig has read a line of Knuth or written a line of coherent code?
