donald knuth

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donald knuth - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Donald Knuth
  
     <person> Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document
     formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and
     the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The
     Art of Computer Programming".
  
     Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also
     involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the
     WEB literate programming system.
  
     See also MIX, Turingol.
  
     (1994-11-04)