Subj : Re: programming and typing To : comp.programming From : David Tiktin Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 02:11 pm On 07 Sep 2005, John Smith wrote: > Settle an argument. How many professional programmers are touch > typists? Does typing proficiency affect programming productivity? Hunt and peck here (but really fast hunt and peck). I think not being a touch typist would slow me down a lot if programming were mostly typing, but lucky for me, it's not. (Amdahl's Law at work.) Besides, I use a programmable editor and have written a ton of templates and macros to do code generation for me. Touch typist or not, if you spend an appreciable amount of your programming time typing, you're doing something wrong! Dave -- D.a.v.i.d T.i.k.t.i.n t.i.k.t.i.n [at] a.d.v.a.n.c.e.d.r.e.l.a.y [dot] c.o.m .