Ask HN: What Was Knuth's "Earthshaking Announcement"?

by mikecane • 16 years ago

6 5 16 years ago

It was an item here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1470996 -- I've Googled and it seems there's actually nothing?

sbe• 16 years ago

iTex.

-- Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound." --

mikecane• 16 years ago

This is what happens when I search for "Donald E. Knuth" in quotes at Google. It didn't pick up Slashdot because I was too literal. Thanks!

rick_2047• 16 years ago

The link in the article is to a tweet which has a hashtag #PARODY. Makes it hard to believe.

RiderOfGiraffes• 16 years ago

I don't have a definitive answer for you, but here are some more references:

uptown• 16 years ago

Here's the follow-up HackerNews discussion:

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