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Interestingly, that Dijkstra article was originally published/circulated in handwritten form. It helps showcase the author's handwriting skills.

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

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The handwriting skills were common back in the day... By the way, are you sure that it was Dijkstra himself who handprinted these texts (rather than have, say, his secretary do that)? Because this is not exactly the (beautiful) handwriting as it was taught back then.

He handwrote them, and occasionally typed them (especially early on, I gave up trying to find the transition point). It was something he was known for. If you read the EWD's over the years you'll see the same (or very similar) handwriting throughout, which would not be the case if he had a secretary writing them for him (who wouldn't have been the same person as he moved between countries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#EWD_manuscr...

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ - Pick random ones from different decades and you'll see very similar handwriting.

(Didn't read these, picked two at random):

2001 - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1307.PDF

1984 - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd09xx/EWD901.PDF

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