Re: [LIP] Relevance of Knuth

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, rahul wrote:

> I wish to know how relevant/beneficial studying books like Knuth's Art 
> of Computer Programming is for a person working on languages like 
> Java/Python. The applications are _not_ graphics related or scientific, 
> but these are core Java networking servers, some J2ee work, a lot of 
> design related work.
> 
> I glanced through these books recently and they seem highly math 
> oriented to me (i dont have a math background).
> Am i right in thinking that these concepts have already been taken care 
> of while designing say the Collections frameworks. Would they be only 
> useful for persons designing searching sorting algo's ?
> Or would they help me write more efficient code in general.
> 
> Appreciate comments. BTW, Knuth isn't just one book. There are several 
> volumes, and some he's still working on (quite daunting for a faint 
> hearted person).

the art of computer programming is a three volume book.
what they cover is basically algorithm issues which don't change in C, 
Java or Perl. some language gives you the APIs so you needn't do the hard 
work of devising the standardized algorithms. but in case you need to 
write one, knuth is the text and reference.
-hizibiz


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