in reply to OT: Lobbying college library for Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming"

What, you want to read TAOCP in a library and not have your own copy to read? I'm a lawyer by training and profession and even I have my own copy!

CountZero

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Re: Re: OT: Lobbying college library for Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming"
by Jenda (Abbot) on Oct 22, 2003 at 19:21 UTC

    Waitasecond ... let me go back a few (say 10) years to the time I was starting at the university ... so

    1. where the heck would I buy it? How easy do you think is was to buy a computer related book in english here in Czech Republic? Yeah, I've heard there was some company where you could order a book and they'd order it from abroad and deliver it in a few months, but the price ...
    2. yep the price. Amazon has some used at $100. Cool yeah? Well not much. That was about twice as much as my monthly income at that time. So yeah, even I could have a copy.

    Jenda
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      Jenda, I was just kidding.

      Bad example of a lawyer trying to be humorous.

      CountZero

      "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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Re: OT: Lobbying college library for Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming"
by QM (Parson) on Oct 22, 2003 at 03:56 UTC
    my $.02;

    I have a copy at home and a copy at work. I even managed to get work to pay for that one!

    -QM

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