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Why the archived version?

See the recent one:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html

By the way, Donald Knuth uses Emacs to write TeX :-)

That emacs mode is amusing. Someone should tell him about macros :)

(I'm not trying to be critical, BTW. I just find it interesting when extraordinary people do ordinary things, like writing an emacs mode to colorize a given line.)

There is an interview where he explains what he likes about Emacs:

I have special Emacs modes to help me classify all the tens of thousands of papers and notes in my files, and special Emacs keyboard shortcuts that make bookwriting a little bit like playing an organ.

Probably one of the few rational vi/emacs arguments I've seen. And it also is a good reason why I like vi, given that I can barely hit two keys on a piano at the same time.

(Link to interview: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856)

...and special Emacs keyboard shortcuts that make bookwriting a little bit like playing an organ.

A bit of trivia: Knuth has actually studied the organ--in fact, he has a pipe organ at his home:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html

Too bad all the links on that page are dead.

Untrue.

Well, I must admit I didn't try every link so perhaps one of them might be valid but lets see what happens when we try the first few:

  cweb - The requested URL /~uno/cweb.html was not found on this server.
  Axioms and Hulls - The requested URL /~uno/aah.html was not found on this server.
  Computer Musings - The requested URL /~uno/musings.html was not found on this server.

Don't waste your time with this page, use the one dimitar posted instead: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html

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