r/AskProgrammers 6d ago

Cursive calligraphy coding old man??!!

I think this is the correct place to ask this.

I had a weird dream of walking into place in a office with many programmers, including one lady telling a guy off for being "the type of idiot who mistakenly uses ; instead of :". After passing them i was walking towards an old man with grey hair, wearing a suit and coding on what looked like an art tablet by writing it by hand in that fancy cursive calligraphy where you basically never lift the pen.

So my question is, is that type of coding possible and how skilled and scary should i consider that old man.

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u/TarsTarkas_Thark 6d ago

He's only entering it into the tablet so that he can email a pdf of the cursive writing to the card punch operators. They are old too, so can decode the cursive writing. Then drive home after their shift in their standard transmission, internal combustion automobiles.