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by llaolleh 1348 days ago
Imagine if we got an HBO adaptation of TAOCP.
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The show-runners would exercise some creative license, and we'd end up with things like o(n) being worse than o(n!) in the show, but not in the book. Even worse now that there's a video version of the classic - it's deviations from the text would start to be seen as "the better one" and the software bloat problem would dramatically intensify worldwide as everyone rearranged their algorithms.
You mean N would break out of the Otriarchal grip of the system and be a strong, independent constant.
No, I meant what I said.
No doubt it would be filled with gratuitous union-finding that wasn't present in the original.