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Same thing but in his own handwriting: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF I know
by tmp538394722 6y ago
Same thing but in his own handwriting:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF
I know it’s silly, but it just made him seem more human to me.
- vulcan01 6y agoOff-topic: Damn, how do people get such good handwriting? It looks typed at a first glance. Wow.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoThere is probably a significant genetic component to it. Some people have better eye-hand coordination and better hand stability.
- nomel 6y agoOr, it could be that he comes from an age where you would write, rather than type, everything.
- ThePadawan 6y agoProbably helps, but for comparison, here's my dad's handwriting (born in the 1940s): https://i.imgur.com/svu8orT.png https://i.imgur.com/svu8orT.png
- cheschire 6y agoGerman writing evolved several times in the 1900’s. That most likely impacted the legibility as different types of training came through each letter. As an aside, reading recipes from that era is nearly impossible for me as a foreigner. Folks can learn more about the evolution by picking up the trail here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurrent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurrent
- ThePadawan 6y agoIt's also mostly impossible for Germans (that's why there's a whole subreddit of people that are capable of parsing Sütterlin)! You might be able to recognize some letters in the excerpt (u/n/w especially) from Sütterlin, but lots of others (especially the upper case ones) are more modern.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoI was born in the 80s. I spent two decades writing for hours everyday. So did my peers. Some had good writing, some had bad, despite many of the bad trying to write better.
- sumtechguy 6y agoI took a few drafting classes in highschool. My handwriting improved tremendously. They spent several weeks on just how to hold the pencil correctly and how to have the right touch on the paper for even lines. They also spent a lot of time on how to be deliberate about what was written. Because back then getting an error into a blueprint was extremely time consuming and a pain to repair just in the paperwork world never mind the physical. Never did that job. But it sure cleaned up my handwriting. Just for fun a few months ago I thought back on how my signature has changed over the years. I drew them all down on a piece of paper. My wife thought I was nuts for having no less than 7 different signatures. My current one sort of resembles letters and scribbles.
- ghaff 6y agoI never had good handwriting; it was always my worst grade in elementary school. But I used to at least be able to write legibly given that I did have years of Palmer script. These days I really can't write in any consistent or truly readable way any longer.
- raegis 6y agoPractice :)
- tasogare 6y agoThat and deliberate choice to improve readability, hence the choice of writing in script letters instead of cursive, which is more natural and faster to write when handwriting.
- wdevanny 6y agoDijkstrta is infamous for his focus on handwriting. A student once told a story that during a 1-on-1 oral exam, Dijkstra spent half the time having the student practice their handwriting.
- fnord77 6y agoI practiced and practiced as a kid
- carapace 6y agoWhat I find really impressive, almost galling, is the lack of corrections. Thirty pages and (i counted only) one scratch-out!
- cmroanirgo 6y agoI agree. This should be the main url. I find it ironic that a hand written talk (by Dijkstra no less!) begins: > The second part of this talk pursues some of the scientific and educational consequences of the assumption that computers represent a radical novelty. Even doubly so, that the OP pdf was clearly transcribed and then converted to a pdf, when the original is so very much clearer to read.