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Interview with Donald Knuth (InformIT)Interview with Donald Knuth (InformIT)Posted Apr 28, 2008 8:07 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)In reply to: Interview with Donald Knuth (InformIT) by vonbrand Parent article: Interview with Donald Knuth (InformIT)
Sure, Knuth is of the "write it all by myself" people, and so he has no use for "resusable code". It is somewhat surprising that he thinks so highly of open source in this light. If you read the fine article, he says he prefers "re-editable code" to "reusable code". From that point of view, open source makes perfect sense. If all you want is reusable code, you can link against a proprietary library, pay whatever licence fees are required, swallow their bugs. You don't need open source.
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