The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Donald Knuth

    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)