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by KeytarHero 3523 days ago
Uhh, TAOCP predates Erlang by quite a bit. Shouldn't the headline be, "Erlang uses a Donald Knuth-like notation"?
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> TAOCP predates Erlang by quite a bit.

Are you sure Knuth wasn't secretly programming in Erlang since the early 50's. He is considered one of the original inventors, it was just too controversial so it was covered up all this time.

I guess we need special whimsy and/or sarcasm tags so people don't take them too seriously...