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From: Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Counting binary trees
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In article <4mv0p2$aqu@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>,
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:

>"The Art of Computer Programming; Volume 1.  Fundamental Algorithms"
>by Donald E. Knuth.
> ...
>Thirty years on and the only _really_ dated stuff is
> - the idea that machines and programs are small

Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the old days, but I still don't think
this makes it "dated."  There are always going to be small
machines and programs that need to be small, for some value of
"small," and the principles of writing programs for small spaces
should not be lost.  (Of course, size is no longer the sole virtue
of a program, as it once was.)

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