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Donald Knuth
KindPerson
Born1938
StatusAlive
Fieldtheory
Sourcewww-cs-faculty.stanford.edu ↗

Writing The Art of Computer Programming since 1962, built TeX because typesetting mattered, and invented literate programming.

Created The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1 Literate Programming

Wrote 'The Art of Computer Programming' (1968–) — the field's bible — and created TeX, literate programming, and the MMIX machine.\n\nTuring Award 1974; he offered $2.56 checks for errors ('one hexadecimal dollar'), and Bill Gates called TAOCP 'the book that defined his career.'

Sources

  1. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth