At 03:59 AM 11-06-98 -0400, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
>Having heard such promises for longer than some list members have
>been alive, I hope I will be forgiven for not wanting to count my
>chickens until the eggs are all in one basket.
True enough, but the fact that Knuth has had time to fully revise volumes 1
through 3 is some hope that progress will happen with the other volumes.
I've just visited Knuth's home page (
http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~knuth/)
and extraced the following:
"The material will first appear in beta-test form as fascicles of
approximately 128 pages each, issued approximately twice per year beginning
in 1999. These fascicles will represent my best attempt to write a
comprehensive account, but computer science has grown to the point where I
cannot hope to be an authority on all the material covered in these books.
Therefore I'll need feedback from readers in order to prepare the official
volumes later. The publishers have pledged to make the fascicles available
in an inexpensive form, essentially at cost. (Of course, the paper and
binding will probably be designed to self-destruct in a few years, so that
you will have to buy the real book after it is debugged:-)
If all goes as planned, Volumes 4A, 4B, and 4C will be ready in the year
2004."
So I guess we've got time to save up for Volume 4....
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