while we are on the subject of dvorak....
For those who don't know, dvorak is an alternate and superior keyboard layout than
qwerty. Qwerty
was actually designed to slow down the typist (solution to problem of early type
writers jamming) by
spreading commonly used keys away from the home row. The guy who invented dvorak, Dr.
Dvorak, spent
half his life or so doing it... It places most commonly used keys close to home and
balances load
between left and right hands equally. While debatable, I find it faster, more
accurate, and
definately more comfortable on my hands (all my hand pain from using keyboards went
away after
switching to dvorak). And you don't need to by new keyboard. Most OS's (including
beos, windows,
macos, amiga, etc...) have option built into setting to allow you to remap keyboard to
dvorak.
anyway, here is a dvorak url if anyone is interested :
http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/
It works really well with rebol...
(hey, if i was in a dvorak message board or qnx discussion board and the topic of
programming
languages came up...I would definately give REBOL a plug!)
Rishi
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Subject: [REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:(7)
> Yay! Another Dvorak user! :-D
>
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> Subject: [REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:(6)
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> > I didn't get that right...oops...probably because I use the dvorak
> keyboard layout rather than
> > qwerty...
> >
> > Rishi
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:27 AM
> > Subject: [REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:(5)
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > As Carl once related to me:
> > >
> > > Semicolon was not picked because it's the LISP comment
> > > character, the square brackets are not in REBOL because
> > > they're found in FORTH, the reason for their use is based on
> > > their position on the keyboard (home row) and the fact that
> > > they are UNSHIFTED!! People will be typing these things ALOT
> > > so they'd better be conveniently located and easy to hit.
> > >
> > > REBOL doesn't want your fingers to hurt.
> > >
> > > That's just an indication of the attention to detail that is
> > > the REBOL standard.
> > >
> > > Everyone essentially got the answer right-- A+! :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > -jeff
> > >
> > >
> > >
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