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"The braces are not perfect— clearly they have been done by hand—but they are very precise" There were plastic template stencils/rulers that let you draw great
by sedatk 4y ago
"The braces are not perfect— clearly they have been done by hand—but they are very precise"
There were plastic template stencils/rulers that let you draw great looking braces.
- segfaultbuserr 4y agoPossible. These kinds of templates were the standard tool for drawing engineering schematic symbols (like transistors or logic gates) before CAD.
- mrweasel 4y agoThe whole thing is probably done by hand and Ritchie just had excellent handwriting.
- jhncls 4y agoIt would be hard to beat Edger Dijkstra's handwriting. See e.g. the one numbered 831, where he explains the naturalness of zero-indexing [0]. [0]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
- workmandan 4y agoWhat a joy to parse!
- jgilias 4y agoIt’s… I have horrible handwriting that I’ve never been ashamed of. Now I am. Thanks for posting this!
- carabiner 4y agoDraftsmen used to practice freehand lettering. The end result, without stencils, looked indistinguishable from print.