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This article describes the history behind the multi-volume Bible of computer programming, The Art of Computer Programming, by Donald E. Knuth. The first volume was release and, now 80, Knuth is still working on the series. No detail is spared. "Knuth made it clear that the system could actually be understood all the way down to the machine code level."

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