Subj : Re: programming and typing
To   : comp.programming
From : William
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 01:21 pm

"David Tiktin" <dtiktin@nospam.totally-bogus.com> wrote in message
news:Xns96CA71D94F0F5dtiktinnospambogusco@216.196.97.142...
> On 07 Sep 2005, John Smith <JSmith@mail.net> wrote:
>
> 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!

Point taken, but consider the *job* of programming and the amount
of typing required unrelated to code generation. When coding I
do a lot of copy & paste anyway, but my ability to churn out the
required (and unrequired, but useful) documentation at a fast
clip is what raises my productivity. (And gives me more time
for contemplating my design.)

BTW, I knew a guy who typed 60+ words a minute with two fingers.
In a sense it was touch typing since he never had to look at the
keyboard (I guess that took the "hunt" out of "hunt and peck").

-Wm

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