Never heard of him, is he another great computer scientist?

I'd love it if someone like Chris Wellons or Per Bothner could work on them, but filling Knuth's shoes may be a big task for one man.

Well played

Journey before destination

The joke, for anyone else here who isn't a book nerd (my wife is), is that now whenever an old author dies with unfinished work, or hasn't finished their work (that's you, George!) people make a joke "Just let Brandon Sanderson finish it!" because Mr. Sanderson is an absolute writing beast, he's a "100x writer" if there ever was one and he is working on (or finished?) a book series[0] by a now-dead author and most people think he made it better.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time