Name: Anonymous 2014-05-21 23:18
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT.mc_id=Author_Knuth_20Questions
5. Mark Taub, Pearson: Does the emergence of "apps" (small, single-function, networked programs) as the dominant programming paradigm today impact your plans in any way for future material in TAOCP?
Don Knuth: People who write apps use the ideas and paradigms that are already present in the first volumes. And apps make use of ever-growing program libraries, which are intimately related to TAOCP. Users of those libraries ought to know something about what goes on inside.
[b]Future volumes will probably be even more "app-likable,"[/b] because I've been collecting tons of fascinating games and puzzles that illustrate programming techniques in especially instructive and appealing ways.