lets help the next generation not suffer by
teaching dvorak as a first time keyboard layout!
yeeha!
yeah right i wish. but we can always dream
On Feb 7, 2008 1:30 AM, eric pareja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
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