Knuth on designing and implementing TeX

Donald Knuth, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, recalls the design and implementation of TeX. This clip is taken from an interview conducted with Knuth by Edward Feigenbaum for the Computer History Museum on March 14 & 21, 2007 in Mountain View, California. Video of the full interview is available as part of Knuth’s ACM profile at amturing.acm.o....

[@kdietz65]

That's one hell of a skilled secretary that can whip out documents formatted in TeX.

[@neosokretes]

\huge{Beautiful} 😊

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Coward.

[@noodle7788]

❤TeX❤

[@bodgertime]

shoulda called it DoN

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

You can't even call yourself by your real name!

[@esra_erimez]

Wow, I'm astonished by how poorly his speaking skills are

[@rjc199]

It's because he's old. I watched a lesson he gave about TeX to students. I think it was at Stanford. It's here on TH-cam. He was very engaging and funny. It was from the 70s or early 80s.

[@esra_erimez]

@@rjc199 Thank you for pointing this out. I found a video from that time and you are correct.

[@gdevelek]

In this video th-cam.com/video/jbrMBOF61e0/w-d-xo.html he has the exact same problem at a lesser degree. It's a pity because he, without a doubt, is a brilliant scientist and TeX has been a blessing for countless scientists.

[@MHeymann]

I’m astonished at how mean this comment is.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

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@@gdevelek Yet another anonymous pontificating coward!