Knuth on not writing compilers for a living

Donald Knuth, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses the Algol compiler he wrote for Burroughs, and his choice not to continue with commercial software development. This clip is taken from an interview conducted with Knuth by Edward Feigenbaum for the Computer History Museum on March 14 & 21, 2007 in Mountain View, California. Video of the full interview is available as part of Knuth’s ACM profile at amturing.acm.o....

[@jcamargo2005]

We leaned a lot from you, you are a legend, thank you Mr Knuth

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

I most certainly learned something from him!

[@ching-changmeng6884]

You are my hero. Love from Taiwan.