A quote on TeX
The version number of TeX is converging to π and is now at 3.141592
Found here (warning, PDF!!! Package information).
On a side note: I can't but wonder at all things Knuth:
Remember his words about email:
I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime.
He quitted in the best moment, right before spam came in. A true visionarie!
And this chapter of xkcd was terribly funny too… not that it is directly a Knuth-thing but it is related and came to my mind :-)
aurels
20080305
And, you get 2,56$ from him if you find a bug into TeX, because 256 cents is 1$ in hexadecimal base!
He's really an amazing guy/geek… He has also been writing some Programmer's Bible…
Aurels, BE
sole
20080305
You're right - I forgot about that but I knew I had read that before. His books are also very good. They might not appeal to pure coders who just want to set their keyboard on fire but I like high abstraction levels, and they are very well written too.
I used to borrow them from the university library; now that it's not possible I was thinking about getting a personal copy but I don't have physical space, so I might investigate about some PDF version or something…
aurels
20080305
I do not know if a pdf version is available (if yes I'm interested about it).
For me now, all the 'already written' volumes are borrowable at my University's library ;-)
sole
20080305
Ahhhh because you're still in the Uni! Anyway, I'll post a comment if I find a PDF version…