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by Iwan-Zotow 1433 days ago
Well, following great ones - Knuth started doing TeX before writing TAOCP
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Per_Bothner 1433 days ago
That is incorrect. The first 3 volumes of "The Art of Computer Programming" were published in 1968, 1969, and 1973. Knuth started working on TeX in 1977, because he was disappointed by the quality of the galley proofs for the 2nd edition of TAOCP.
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Iwan-Zotow 1428 days ago
I stand corrected
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