[fondux]

Thanks for posting it, this is very nice indeed. Kudos to him for sharing the credit. Maybe he's not that of an evil person as I have pictured before. But the discussion around here made me realize once more that there is still a problem lying around here. People tend to attribute the works we see around to a single person when in reality it's a team's work. And I'm not only talking about the very close circle these people are working with but also many others in the service industry that we interact daily in an indirect fashion. This is very dangerous. It makes people think that their work is inferior since it is not as useful as what these "celebrities" are doing and eventually leaving them the only choice to give up and rather worship these people instead. This is what I see everyday.

Also note that, while you can see these kinds of notes lying around, there are also many places these don't exists at all. If I were to know Donald Knuth from his wikipedia article, I would not be aware of his secretary at all. So there is some credit but not to the extend that I would like to see.

I think this is a serious issue that needs to be dealt with. Maybe anonymous writing could be a solution, I dont know..

[cpr]

Why would you ever think of Don Knuth as an evil person?

From my few years of contacts with him in the early 80's (he was on the board of our company, a spin-off from the TeX project), he was one of the most gracious, kind, thoughtful, humble people you could ever meet. And I think anyone who met him would agree.