Donald Knuth wants you to code beautifully
Donald Knuth’s earliest claim to fame was at age 13, when he won a contest by finding 4,700 anagrams for ‘Ziegler’s Giant Bar’ — and was awarded chocolate for his entire class. It was only the first of many honours that would come to include the A. M. Turing Award, the most prestigious in computer science. Knuth describes his multi-volume opus-in-progress, The Art of Computer Programming, as a manifesto for writing code so beautiful that it can be read by humans like a story. “It describes the way I love to do math and the way I wish I had been taught,” says Knuth.
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