Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Brown Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most? Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 17:30:29 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <87frk10w51.fsf@onesoftnet.eu.org> <87o6ylobba.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:30:29 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9a30eecc51f671aceab9f16df4d71440"; logging-data="325971"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18g4LuYiMX8POBnDoUgFhW0grni8wv6KX8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:9J9SLqn2Qt6cZnJP1DlRzNGlquA= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <87o6ylobba.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Bytes: 3123 On 01/03/2025 01:15, Keith Thompson wrote: > Richard Heathfield 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!)