Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +--------------- | > "Under the spell of Leibniz's dream" (2000) By Edsger W | > Dijkstrahttp://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd12xx/EWD1298.PDF | | A link to a copy in a non-toxic format would be nice. +---------------
Well, the fact of the matter is that the bulk of Dijkstra's "EWD" papers were written *long* before the web existed, typed on a favorite manual typewriter which he continued using for the remainder of his professional life. <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/> has more details on the more than one thousand "EWD"s he wrote. Until very recently, the *only* source for these documents was either in hardback technical books (for the few that were published) or in the PDF bitmaps of scans of the original manually-typed pages, which the University of Texas at Austin has generously made [and even after Dijkstra's death continues to make] available on-line. However, a *few* but "growing number of the PDF bitmap documents have been transcribed to make them searchable and accessible to visitors who are visually impaired." If you would care to volunteer [as over sixty others have done] to contribute to the transcriptions, see <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/invitation.html>. Otherwise, just count your blessings that these gems are available at all... -Rob ----- Rob Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 627 26th Avenue <URL:http://rpw3.org/> San Mateo, CA 94403 (650)572-2607 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
