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OK, so Dr. Knuth is alive and well, and reporting a bug. Is there more to this that I'm not seeing?

MetaFont and TeX are both known for being bug-free because Knuth offered cash rewards for finding them—famously, he no longer does this because he had issues with people not cashing his checks. So it's highly unusual to find bugs, and is generally considered newsworthy these days.

EDIT: MetaPost -> MetaFont

I think you meant MetaFont.

> he no longer does this because he had issues with people not cashing his checks.

Slight correction - he had issues with people attacking his checking accounts: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html

Yeah, not exactly sure this is newsworthy. He's not even reporting a bug, just responding to one.

Keep being alive Dr. Knuth.

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