I’m always amazed to see work like this from the ’70s. (I know I shouldn’t be, but some blind spots die hard…) My father was taking undergraduate computer scien

I’m always amazed to see work like this from the ’70s. (I know I shouldn’t be, but some blind spots die hard…) My father was taking undergraduate computer science classes at that time, and his stories, many of them involving punch-card mishaps, left me with a different idea of what was possible before my generation. In one of his courses—it may even have been in the same year that this paper was published—his final project was to design a program to apply right-hand justification to text. It was a real challenge for him and the other students in his group. My understanding is that they were able to get as far as calculating how many words could fit in a given line, and how many extra spaces should be added to bring it flush with the right margin. But all of those spaces would be dumped after the first word in the line, not distributed evenly. They still got a passing grade. Anyway, sorry to ramble. It’s cool to look at actual work from that period.