Edsger W. Dijkstra Archive, Transcriptions

My alma mater, Eindhoven University of Technology, has a CS department whose direction has very much been shaped by Dijkstra's thinking. While Dijkstra himself was capable of more nuanced thought at times, he raised a whole set of, well, apostles, who took over his ideas and further developed them with a passion not unlike that of religious nuts.

One of the things they also did, was meticulously copy his handwriting. A fun result of this was that I spent a fair amount of my degree watching grey, old bearded men fill up blackboards to the brim with girl's handwritings.

Admittedly, this was a lot more clear and enlightening than someone pressing "play" on a powerpoint, though. I learned a lot.