There’s em dashes in that 1978 article.

▲ kevin_thibedeau 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The typed original [1] has double hyphens that have been converted to dashes. His typewriter (Hermes Ambassador) was fixed pitch.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd06xx/EWD667.PDF

▲ retrac 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh look at the last paragraph on the first page. Manually justified:

           In order to make machines significantly easier to use, it has been
    proposed (to try) to design machines that we could instruct in our native
    tongues.  This would, admittedly, make the machines much more complicated,
    but, it was argued, by letting the machine carry a larger share of the
    burden, life would become easier for us.  It sounds sensible provided you
    blame the obligation to use a formal symbolism as the source of your dif-
    ficulties.

How does one even achieve that with a manual typewriter?

	▲	kevin_thibedeau a minute ago \| parent [-]
		It's coincidence in this case. Proportional typewriters were made but this wasn't one of them.

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▲ voxelghost 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wasnt the original famously in written with Fountain pen? And the typed out version reproduced much later?

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kevin_thibedeau 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He typed them until 1979 when his typewriter stopped working correctly.

	▲	voxelghost 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		[delayed]

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jtbaker 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

His namesake algo was also written entirely in his head in about 20 minutes at a coffee shop! https://harlepengren.com/dijkstras-algorithm-20-minutes/

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DonHopkins an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Luca Cardelli created the handwritten typeface Dijkstra font in the late 1980s, to mimic the distinctive and precise handwriting of his colleague Edsger W. Dijkstra.

It shipped as a free PostScript font with NeWS:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/NeWS/fonts/Dijkstra.ps

https://lucacardelli.name/indexartifacts.html

(You have to click on the "Fonts" tab, there's no direct link to it.)

Dijkstra [.ttf (2013 updated version by Reuben Thomas)] [.zip (old PC)] [.hqx (old Mac)] [Preview.pdf]

A beautiful handwriting font of unknown origin, first popularized by E.W.Dijkstra. Excellent for slides that appear to be carefully written, and for short, deep technical notes.

https://lucacardelli.name/Artifacts/Fonts/Pc/dijkstra.ttf

https://lucacardelli.name/Artifacts/Fonts/Pc/Dijkstra.zip

https://lucacardelli.name/Artifacts/Fonts/Mac/Dijkstra.sea.h...

https://lucacardelli.name/Artifacts/Fonts/Dijkstra.pdf

▲ archargelod 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not just em dashes, it's 1: typewriter em dashes aka `--` and 2: usage of them in pairs, like parenthesis, that is completely different from how LLMs use them.

▲ timcobb 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It can only mean one thing.

	▲	gnabgib 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Get out the Binford 6000, it's Tool Time?

▲ nickm12 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Proof that Djikstra was an AI model!

▲ adamrezich 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Literally stop the presses

▲ soulofmischief 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Unreadable.