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Knuth is from a time when professors had secretaries who would type their handwritten manuscripts (maybe he still has one). That's why he thinks it is OK to han
by coliveira 9y ago
Knuth is from a time when professors had secretaries who would type their handwritten manuscripts (maybe he still has one). That's why he thinks it is OK to handwrite all his papers and even code. Normal people (us) may even think that handwriting is easier than typing, but very few of us are willing to spend the time it takes to both handwrite and later type the same document. So, in my opinion, the reason for the choice is pragmatic, given the way we need to prepare software.
- melling 9y agoIdeally, you should be able to scan in what you wrote using your phone, then have it OCR’ed. With the recent advances in deep neural nets, this should be close to possible.
- coliveira 9y agoMaybe this will be easier in the future, but nowadays there is still the issue of scanning, running OCR, and fixing the many errors that the OCR process generates.