Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art

[arkj]

http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html

[pmdulaney]

Ten years before the first edition of The TeXBook (1984) Knuth was already thinking about the Greek word texne* whose meaning straddles art and science.

*Sorry - if there is a way of inserting Greek characters here, I am unfamiliar with it.

[arkj → pmdulaney]

You mean τέχνη?

[pmdulaney → arkj]

Thank you!