On: How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A t...

[mrweasel]

The whole thing is probably done by hand and Ritchie just had excellent handwriting.

[jhncls → mrweasel]

It would be hard to beat Edger Dijkstra's handwriting. See e.g. the one numbered 831, where he explains the naturalness of zero-indexing [0].

[0]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

[jgilias → jhncls]

It’s…

I have horrible handwriting that I’ve never been ashamed of. Now I am.

Thanks for posting this!

[workmandan → jhncls]

What a joy to parse!