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From: "Alexander E. Kopilovitch" <aek@pcaek.spb.su>
Subject: Re: Help B* and B+ Trees
Date: 1998/05/17
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In <355D5DF7.1451@online.no> "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no> wrote:
>I believe he used mix simply because he likes bit twiddling. I don't
>mind that, it just makes the books less readable and longer than they
>could have been.
He (Knuth) may have foreseen an appearence of JVM. And he did his best to
adapt us to the future nightmares.


Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@pcaek.spb.su
Saint-Petersburg
Russia