@AlgoCompSynth
I didn't know he hadn't totally worked through it himself. 😆

I was a sysadmin for about twenty years, but never thoroughly learned any programming language. I kept bumping into situations that required a tine little utility of some kind-- for example, I once needed something that would check to see if a cell data connection was live, and if not, restart its process to get back online-- and would pop in and out of Knuth to see if my problem had already been solved more efficiently than whatever my first idea was.

Got a tiny amount of familiarity with Python (mostly for Excel macros), C (did some little automation stuff for Linux server maintenance) and, just because it had a different approach to logic than I would naturally have, Ruby. Knuth was always there to help me find a way to think about whatever the issue was.

I'd always planned to go through the whole thing as a keep-the-brain-working challenge when I retired. But then when I actually did retire, I found that I had more fun things to do than that, so I gave the set to a friend who actually works as a programmer. 😉

@AndyLowry What I meant was that he hasn't published all of the volumes that were supposed to be in the series. 🙂

@AlgoCompSynth
Hahahaha of COURSE I misread that. 😆 It's scary to think that not everything was covered in what already exists, because it seems pretty thorough as is!