Donald Knuth <person> Donald E. Knuth, the author of the {TeX} document formatting system, {Metafont} its {font}-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of {algorithms}, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "{Backus-Naur Form}" and was also involved in the {SOL} simulation language, and developed the {WEB} {literate programming} system. See also {MIX}, {Turingol}. (1994-11-04)