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		<title>Donald Knuth Interview</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this fascinating Donald Knuth interview via Artima. A couple of snippets to pique your interest, one on the subject of open source software: [...] I think that a few programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, will always be superior to competitors like the Gimp—for some reason, I really don’t know why! I’m quite [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across this fascinating <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth">Donald Knuth</a> <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856">interview</a> via Artima. A couple of snippets to pique your interest, one on the subject of open source software:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>[...] I think that a few programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, will always be superior to competitors like the Gimp—for some reason, I really don’t know why! I’m quite willing to pay good money for really good software [...]</em></p></blockquote>
<p>And his opinon of reuse, with which I wholeheartedly agree:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for reusable code. To me, "re-editable code" is much, much better than an untouchable black box or toolkit. I could go on and on about this. If you’re totally convinced that reusable code is wonderful, I probably won’t be able to sway you anyway, but you’ll never convince me that reusable code isn’t mostly a menace.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Other interesting topics he touches on include multi-core processor architectures and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Programming">XP</a>. Happy reading!</p>
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