Comment by brudgers

2 days ago

The Art of Computer Programming has been a work in progress since 1962.

That’s longer than some of the list items.

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cubefox  2 days ago

Thanks. I was going to ask about long book (or film etc) projects like that. Some dictionaries and encyclopedias took decades to finish. The "Deutsches Wörterbuch" by the Brothers Grimm was started in 1838 and it got finished only in 1961, long after their death.

  • brudgers  2 days ago

    Unlike most of the list items or a dictionary, Knuth’s work is an ongoing personal creative process rather than an independent mechanism or a collection of data.