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: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-08 10:43:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org 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 ? References: <3B20E591.AB2B3EA9@dresdner-bank.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 17:43:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 992022216 24.7.82.199 (Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:43:36 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:43:36 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10508 comp.lang.ada:8440 comp.lang.awk:2925 comp.lang.clarion:21474 comp.lang.java.programmer:74851 comp.lang.pl1:929 comp.lang.vrml:3668 Date: 2001-06-08T17:43:36+00:00 List-Id: >It depends on what the code is actually doing; I can knock out >boilerplate code pretty quickly thanks to touch-typing. And even on >those two or three lines, typing them faster allows me to start >thinking about the next lines sooner. Has anyone ever published a time & motion study of programmers? I've toyed with setting up a TV camera to look over my shoulder and see just how much time actually is spent typing/waiting for compiles/thinking/etc. Hard data, not "it seems to me I'm always..."