One of my peeves about switching to DVORAK is that editor keymaps (vi or emacs) in the QWERTY layout are already stuck in my brain. And I'm already a reasonably quick touch typist on QWERTY, so any speed increases won't really improve my productivity. Quite the contrary, struggling with the new keyboard mapping for someone who's ALREADY a QWERTY touch typist can eat into my time.
Then there's the issue of DVORAK being designed to improve typing in English. It's great if you're a secretary who does nothing but type English reports or any kind of text churning job, but any speed improvements are negligible when you don't really spurn out text in volume and if you're writing stuff that isn't English. Command line stuff isn't really english. So, I'll stick to QWERTY. Besides, I don't use just ONE machine and I can't depend on the Dvorak layout being available everywhere I go. On Feb 7, 2008 3:14 PM, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Orly's right. Developers and admins usually spend most of their time > thinking, reading, and analyzing... not typing. But of course Rommel's > also right. > > Besides, we need to type faster and more comfortably so we can have > these long threads on PLUG that accomplish nothing other than help us > feel more macho. > > Heh heh heh. > > ;) > > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:33 -0700, Rommel Asibal wrote: > > i would say typing faster and more comfortably helps out in the long > > run no matter what you do.... > > > > > > > > On Feb 6, 2008 9:59 PM, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't see the benefit of dvorak for system admins or coders. > > it's > > not like you can type THAT fast... > > > > maybe for novelist writers... but developers and admins spend > > most of > > their time thinking and only a small fraction of that typing. > > at least > > they should be! > > > > i've never met a developer who could write code as fast as > > they could > > write sentences. > > > -- > > Federico Sevilla III > F S 3 Consulting Inc. > http://www.fs3.ph > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- `..^..' eric pareja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) lpic-2 | software freedom for all |<(e)>| gnu linux python debian edu iosn localization tagalog filipino `..v..' foss internationalization usability pusakat philippines free "Ang mundo ay aklat, at iisang pahina lamang ang nababasa ng hindi naglalakbay." _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
