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I started reading the title and almost had a heart attack thinking Donald Knuth died

Edit: Title was "Professor Donald Knuth on Writing and More, an Int..."

I got exactly the same reaction. I feel lucky to be in a field so young that many of the "founding fathers" are still alive.

I think this decade will be the last one where we get to say that :( Most of them are now in their 70s or 80s.