From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-05 07:11:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!npeer.kpnqwest.net!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewspeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsifeed00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewspost00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Jon Skeet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:10:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> <3B0DD011.88FCD00E@acm.org> <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <3B1411D0.3AAF42E7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1CC17D.DD6F730C@brighton.ac.uk> Organization: Peramon Technology Ltd. X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.30 NNTP-Posting-Host: fw.peramon.com X-Trace: 991750263 reading.news.pipex.net 15027 193.132.195.125 X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10388 comp.lang.ada:8156 comp.lang.awk:2767 comp.lang.clarion:21104 comp.lang.java.programmer:73678 comp.lang.pl1:762 comp.lang.vrml:3494 Date: 2001-06-05T15:10:59+01:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > In article <3B1CC17D.DD6F730C@brighton.ac.uk>, John English says... > > > >Mind you, I type one-fingered (but very quickly after 30 years of > >practice :-) so I find I'm more keyboard-layout-insensitive than a > >real typist. > > I can actually touch-type. But I've found its *very* rare that this skill comes > in handy while writing code. Perhaps there are some people out there who *think* > in C or Ada, but I have to stop every couple of lines to translate or > strategize. Interesting. This doesn't tend to be the way I work in Java. Someone will give me a problem, and I'll spend the next couple of days reading news, surfing the web, playing games, etc - occasionally consciously thinking about the problem, and subconsciously thinking about it most of the time (I believe - obviously I can't easily measure that!) After that couple of days, I'll sit at a keyboard and write a large block of code. I may stop every so often if I'm writing a block of code which needs thinking about at a low level, but I relatively rarely need to reconsider a high-level design decision - at that stage, anyway. (Of course it all changes when the original requirements change!) To that end, my overall coding speed *does* have a slight bottleneck in typing speed, but I don't believe it's significant. -- Jon Skeet - skeet@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~skeet If replying to the group, please don't mail me at the same time