[mschaef]

Thanks for the response.

> You obviously still haven't read the column and the article that explained what the goal actually was. ... > do search for all the other columns and computer science books written by both Bentley and Knuth

Since this is public, I'll conclude by noting here that I had indeed read both of the articles, and a bunch of other text by both Bentley and Knuth besides. (In fact, the Programming Pearls books are particularly high on my list of recommendations...)

[acqq]

Then what I can conclude is that you claim that you've read the articles but that you still ignored their content, in case you've read them before writing here, otherwise you would not instead present here the false interpretation of what the Knuth's specific task in these specific articles explicitly was.