From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: Book Recommendations Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:27:57 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021114112103.020cb560@celine> References: <20021114000151.C12031@neutrino.particles.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20021114223254.G12031@neutrino.particles.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA ray@comarre.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs