Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

[David Kastrup]

Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> writes:

> <address@hidden on behalf of address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>1€ question for the young : whom does EWD stand for, and did he bring
>>> to computer science?
>
> Writing by hand with a fountain pen. Look it up folks!

Seriously?  My dad did all of his Theoretical Physics stuff including
the scripts by fountain pen for probably more than 4 decades.  And he is
4 years younger than Dijkstra (if you digged up the latter).  He still
does for his own work, though he switched to LaTeX for scripts and
articles a few decades ago.  I don't know how many bottles of ink and
blotter rolls he may have used up over the years...

-- 
David Kastrup