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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Case dependence and coding standards
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:29:37 +0000 (UTC)
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote:
>  
>: I disagree. I get very frustrated watching programmers who can't type
>: with all ten fingers. Take a lesson and see what you gain!  : : I
>don't have numbers, but I bet the time spent typing is about 10% of :
>my time on average (some of it in this newsgroup :). If I can cut that
>: to 8%, it's worth it.
> 
> Phew. That sounds like Benjamin Franklin on keystrokes :-)
> http://www.sacklunch.net/poorrichard/Necessary_Hints_to_Those_That_Would_Be_Rich.html

Or : 

   "I [..] am rarely happier then when spending an entire day programming
   my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise
   take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Ten seconds, I tell myself,
   is ten seconds. Time is valuable and ten seconds' worth of it is well
   worth the investment of a day's happy activity working out a way to
   save it".

   -- Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See" 

Preben who is currently making a small touch typing program for the
reason stated above ;-)

PS: Touch typing is not so easy when you have to use a lot of
whitespaces IMHO.

-- 
Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/