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Cursive is like vim. Hard to learn, doesn't feel natural, requires that you train numerous small hand motions until they are reflexive, and in the end makes yo
by adriand 16y ago
Cursive is like vim. Hard to learn, doesn't feel natural, requires that you train numerous small hand motions until they are reflexive, and in the end makes you faster and more productive. So it seems like it would be a natural fit for hackers, but the many negative comments in this thread would seem that it is not.
Perhaps the problem with it is that it is too beautiful. In that it is quite unlike vim.
I just wrote cursive for the last hour or so, since reading the article. I haven't written it since grade 6 or so. It was an absolutely bizarre feeling to find that it just came out of my brain the way it did, and when I looked at the page of text I had written, it was covered in what I honestly think is quite beautiful calligraphy.
It's a rather unusual and incredible feeling to learn that you still retain a skill you have not used in decades. Try it, it's pretty neat.