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And? Perhaps it is not the life goal of the majority of people to push advertisements to their fellow human beings.

If the criticism came from Knuth - fine - but Eric Schmidt? Who is he to make such a remark?

The 15-year-old fanboys are downvoting in realtime again. Who else has time to guard threads so closely?

I find it funny that you are seriously lacking in CS knowledge but blame your downvotes on 15 year olds. In addition to being on the boards of two of the most successful technology companies in history he also has a PhD from Berkeley in EECS and co-wrote lex. God I hope you've heard of lex.

My sincere apologies to Eric Schmidt, and thank you for the information.

People waiting on long compiles.

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