Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "My First Line of Code: Linus Torvalds" video.

  1. Some things are just hard enough to take a lifetime... Donald Knuth has been writing a book about computer programming called "The Art of Computer Programming" since year 1968 and it isn't yet ready either. The first 3904 pages have already been published but the book is still unfinished and it remains to be seen if he'll ever finish the book because he is already 85 years old. The "Volume 4B: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 2" consisting of 714 pages was published in 2023 so he's still actively working on it. He also has pre-print versions (called "pre-fascicle") of volumes 5A, 5B, 5C, 6A, 7A, 8A, 9B, 12A and 14A publicly available, but he doesn't yet consider those final, if I've understood correctly.
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