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The greatest example of penmanship among hackers has to be Edsger W. Dijkstra. Dijkstra was well known for his habit of carefully composing manuscripts with
by textread 4y ago
The greatest example of penmanship among hackers has to be Edsger W. Dijkstra.
Dijkstra was well known for his habit of carefully composing manuscripts with his fountain pen. The manuscripts are called EWDs, since Dijkstra numbered them with EWD, his initials, as a prefix.
Dijkstra maintained a consistent beautiful handwriting, and was ambidextrous. These EWDs inspired me to pick up a fountain pen for my own writing.
PDFs of his EWDs can be found at https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
An example EWD: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF
- FeteCommuniste 4y agoWow, that is some nice handwriting indeed. Almost looks like a font.
- textread 4y agoIndeed, an actual font based on his handwriting can be found here: https://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/34398/Dijkstra https://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/34398/Dijk...
- Avshalom 4y agoNoticably that handwriting would have gotten me a B at best printing in grade school, maybe failed if I insisted on continuing the f below the base line. Certainly not the copperplate cursive that most of the 'kids these days' usually bemoan the death of.