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I don't want Knuth to Robert Jordan/George RR Martin himself so I'm waiting for vol 5 to complete before purchasing the set
There's 6 and 7 planned too, might be a bit of a wait. It's a real shame he isn't likely to finish the series, I would really be interested in that final volume (compilers).
The website notes that 6 and 7 are "only if the things I want to say about those topics are still relevant and still haven't been said." This does make me think that he isn't particularly planning on working on these books at all, especially given that the timeline goes "volumes 4 & 5, revise volume 1-3, reader's digest 1-5, then maybe work on 6 & 7"
Imagine if we got an HBO adaptation of TAOCP.
The show-runners would exercise some creative license, and we'd end up with things like o(n) being worse than o(n!) in the show, but not in the book. Even worse now that there's a video version of the classic - it's deviations from the text would start to be seen as "the better one" and the software bloat problem would dramatically intensify worldwide as everyone rearranged their algorithms.
You mean N would break out of the Otriarchal grip of the system and be a strong, independent constant.
No, I meant what I said.
No doubt it would be filled with gratuitous union-finding that wasn't present in the original.