[colemannugent]

>Knuth has been doing literate programming for 35 years

I shouldn't be surprised, that man had a lot going on. Just TeX and Big-O notation alone would be enough to permanently enshrine him in the CS heap of fame, but the hits don't stop there!

Kinda funny how much just one guy could affect research.

[red_trumpet]

That's not true, big-O notation (also called Landau symbols) was used as early as 1894 by Paul Bachmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation)

[aeorgnoieang]

According to that Wikipedia article, Knuth popularized the notation in computer science, which might be what the comment to which you replied is referencing.