The University of Texas has archived more than 1,300 letters and other writing by the late Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, the computer science pioneer who died Aug. 6. The collection includes PDF files of handwritten notes that are amazing in both content and appearance. After seeing his writing, I figured that there would be a Dijkstra font somewhere on the Web. I was right.

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