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It Would Be Nice If We Could Design A Virtual Reality In Hyperbolic Space, And Meet Each Other There.

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My General Working Style Is To Write Everything First With Pencil And Paper, Sitting Beside A Big Wastebasket. Then I Use Emacs To Enter The Text Into My Machine.

Whenever The C++ Language Designers Had Two Competing Ideas As To How They Should Solve Some Problem, They Said, "ok, We'll Do Them Both". So The Language Is Too Baroque For My Taste.

For His Major Contributions To The Analysis Of Algorithms And The Design Of Programming Languages, And In Particular For His Contributions To The "art Of Computer Programming" Through His Well-known Books In A Continuous Series By This Title.