Re: Book Recommendations

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

At 10:32 PM 11/14/02 +0200, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:51:55AM -0500, dashielljt wrote:
> > advanced reference book.  All I have to say about Knuth is that it would
> > have been nice if he had put the necessary fortran or source in that large
> > book to build the tools for his unique programming language.  I didn't
>
>It's an algorithms book. It shouldn't depend on a particular language.

Huh? What it should or shouldn't do isn't the question, here. The book 
(actually, the series, since it comprises 3 volumes) does in fact use an 
idiosyncratic pseudocode presentation of the algorithms, a language which I 
think Knuth calls MIX.

Every algorithms books I've ever looked at prsented the algorithms in some 
particular language (how can it not?), either a pseudo language like MIX or 
a real one like C, C++, or Pascal. At least for me, having the algorithms 
presented in a familiar programming language has value, since it is one 
less thing to keep track of. That's why, in practice, I usually use a book 
other than the Knuth series to research everyday A&DS questions, turning to 
Knuth only for something really tricky or obscure.


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