Knuthian

English

From Knuth +‎ -ian.

Knuthian (not comparable)

(computer science, mathematics) Of or relating to the work, or theory developed from the work, of American computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth.
- 1976, Laurian M. Chirica, David F. Martin, “An algebraic formulation of Knuthian semantics”, in 17th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (SFCS)‎^[1], →DOI, internal citations omitted:
  The purpose of this paper is to present an algebraic treatment of Knuth's approach to the specification of the semantics of context-free languages. Knuthian systems, hereinafter called K-systems, have been called declarative semantics, K-grammars and attributed grammars.
- 2024 October 26 (last accessed), “Pending bugs for original TeX”, in tug.org‎^[2]:
  This page lists bugs in the original (Knuthian) TeX distribution which have been received since the last tune-up[.]