[dyingkneepad]

Is this before or after they read Knuth?

[ncmncm]

Mmm, do you know anybody who has read Knuth, really?

[dyingkneepad]

I own the books and I read parts of it.

But regardless, my point was that there are many many things that people say every programmer should read, and that sometimes includes Knuth. In fact, so many things that even if I stop everything I'm doing and just keep reading everything "every programmer should read", I will die before I finish.

tl;dr: it was a (bad) joke.