On: Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort...

[varjag]

There's hardly a chance that one would both (a) read through all of TAoCP and (b) not extract any value from that. The attention required to wade through the books can't be sustained if you have no interest.

[adastra22 → varjag]

Well, I did read through it all and got zero value.

[starcraft2wol → adastra22]

So what do you do with your combinatorics, math, and logic skills that you got from reading?

[adastra22 → starcraft2wol]

I’m not sure what you’re asking? I do a fair amount of algorithm development in my work. I’ve implemented C++ containers before.

I just learned what I needed for that from sources other than Knuth, and those sources did a better and more thorough job explaining it.