Timeline for Is there an expiration date for well regarded, but old books on programming?
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| Jun 29, 2012 at 19:02 | comment | added | Shannon Severance | Does the latest edition of TAoCP vol. 3 still include algorithms for sorting on tape? Recently I've read remarks by others that for maximum performance, spinning platter disks should really be treated a stream devices. Maybe even something as crazy as sorting on tape is worth knowing to some. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 13:56 | comment | added | Mark Booth | I think this answer would make it's point even better if it included mention of The Art of Computer Programming Volume 4A, which was published in 2011 and Volume 5, planned for 2020! | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 11:23 | comment | added | user25446 | <Sarcasm> "Comment" </Sarcasm> | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 9:49 | comment | added | Shalom Craimer | In a multilingual community like SO, it is very difficult to write sarcasm that will always be parsed as such. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 6:54 | comment | added | DaveE | Apparently some sarcasm detectors are broken... | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 3:21 | comment | added | sarnold | -1: every week or two I see someone asking for an algorithm to handle something or other that Knuth has described in incredible detail. Just for fun: Name one sorting algorithm that is newer than 1981. Want to answer a parallel sort? Knuth has pages about sorting data in parallel. You might be right about the Python books but there's a huge difference between "Flavor of the week" books and engineering craft books. | |
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| Dec 12, 2011 at 18:50 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | In fairness there is at least a case to make that TAoCP's use of an assembler for its pseudocode means that more modern algorithms books which use pseudocode closer to more modern languages are more useful for the 90%+ of us who aren't writing for embedded systems. | |
| Dec 12, 2011 at 18:09 | history | answered | stackoverflowuser2010 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |