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		nayuki 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alph... Donald Knuth bucks the trend by insisting the KN to both be pronounced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

em-bee 6 months ago [–]

this somehow reminds me of niklaus wirth who supposedly said that you can call him by name or by value.

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