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Anybody know whose handwritten note appears at the top? The URL includes "Knuth" and "Baker" and the initials at the top look like "CLB".

(Also, we changed the URL from http://videlalvaro.github.io/2014/09/a-programmers-role.html to the original source, in keeping with the HN guidelines, which call for original sources. In this case the submitted article does add glosses, but not enough to be more substantive than the original. Historical material is particularly welcome on HN, especially when it hasn't appeared before, and this piece doesn't seem to have.)



Chuck Baker [0], according to the index [1], which also has a link to the cover letter [2] from when he sent this and some other papers to Knuth.

[0] http://history.computer.org/pioneers/baker.html

[1] http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_...

[2] http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_...


Thanks!




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