Dup: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1950293" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1950293</a><p>That was flagged and killed, and rightly so. Dreadful list.
As With Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", TAOCP is often bought, always lauded, seldom read.<p>Shame because the few bits I have read are actually very good indeed.