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Speaking of pen and paper... When I was in college, Dijkstra had given a talk for the class a few years before his death, and my instructor passed out his notes. They were on a non-ruled piece of paper with perfectly drawn bullet points for each item. If he made a mistake, he would scratch the word out with a near perfect rectangle. The neatness and clarity was striking. I think it was the only handout in my entire time at the university that was hand written and photocopied instead of typed up on a computer... and it was from one of the most famous computer scientists.


Dijkstra's notes are available here:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/

They are hand written as you said.


Thank you for the excellent link!




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