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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 17:30:29 +0100
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On 01/03/2025 01:15, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
>> On 28/02/2025 23:32, Richard Harnden wrote:
>>> On 28/02/2025 21:10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:21:01 +0000, Richard Harnden wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Have your mental margin-bell ding at around 75 characters ...
>>>>
>>>> What was the ding for? Was it because typists were not in the habit
>>>> of
>>>> looking at what they were typing?
>>> Exactly.  They didn't need to look at what they were typing, because
>>> they could touch-type.  It's why the F and J keys have the little
>>> bumps - so you'd know where you were.  They'd be looking only at
>>> what they where copying, so the audible cue was necessary.  They
>>> could hit 90+ words per minute.
>>> Very impressive, but not a skill a programmer needs.
>>
>> MMMV.
>>
>> You do you, obviously, but touch-typing can easily double your typing
>> speed. It never ceases to amaze me that the NHS claims their doctors
>> are overworked but can't be arsed to teach them to touch-type.
> 
> I suspect two different points are being made.  Touch-typing without
> looking at the keyboard is important for programmers.  Touch-typing
> without looking at the text being typed is less so.
> 

That later skill is really useful for impressing and/or annoying people 
who come into your office to talk to you when you are busy.  Try it some 
time - look at them and even reply to them without stopping typing.

(You can go back and correct mistakes when they are gone!)