Re: Combinations & Permutations..... sort of -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Combinations & Permutations..... sort of
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:59:07 -0400
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Always wanted to collect [Donald Knuth's] books but never did.....

Betcha he did not solve it in RPG though <grin>.

Indeed he did not. He used an assembly language that he invented
specifically for those books. The point of using assembly was so that
it's more transparent how "expensive" an algorithm is. Naturally,
folks have since developed actual implementations to run his invented
assembly. :)

Actually, that's how Lisp was born, too.

John Y.

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