I too took typing in 9th grade (1972) and had peaked at around 75 words per minute properly using all 9 fingers. I feel that as a programmer we typists can type faster as we are typing a lot of the same words over and over. But perhaps that's slowed down by more punctuation characters being typed.
I also had an old Underwood typewriter since I was 4 and always enjoyed typing. I was one of those nerds who typed everything except math homework in high school as I could actually type faster (and neater) than printing or writing. I even had one of the first home versions of an electric typewriter as my father had a home office with a secretary. My opinion on the mixed casing touches on something not yet touched on: Intelligent editors. Now I know that many on this forum are in other languages and can add my reasons for preferring upper case. 1. 99% of my client's code is long-term (legacy) that is written in exclusively upper case as lower case probably didn't work. 2. I've been reading upper case Pick code for over 29 years and it looks funny in mixed casing. 3. Even when I present a code example to this or the Raining Data forum, I tend to change the typeface to Courier. Seeing code in proportional spacing and mixed casing looks doubly strange. 4. I don't know about external editors for MV systems, but there's no real link between the editor environment and the compiler. The last comment comes from my limited use in VB. There, since I cannot use a period as my 'word delimiter' in a variable, ie CUST.REC, and I don't care for the underscore and truly dislike the $ as a delimiter, VB suggests that you declare variables in a Constants Module. In that module, you can "DIM CustName as String" and everywhere you type CUSTNAME or custname or CuStNaMe it will convert it to CustName. That kind of magic is missing in MV and as someone suggested, CustName could possibly not be the same as CUSTNAME. With that threat of working on this inherited MV code, I prefer upper case. That seems to serve me well as I straddle U2 systems as well as D3 and even older native and Microdata clients. Those older ones don't even allow lower case. In fact, early Microdata keyboards didn't have lower case letters, you had to use char(95) etc. My 2 Cents Mark Johnson PS. My kids (18 & 21) both use 2 finger typing and I beat them every time. On the other hand, they kill me with the T9 phone typing especially using all of the acronyms. As programmers, I've seen many 2 finger persons who just don't look as on the ball as they should. Not intellectually, just the slower rate of conveying their thoughts to the computer. Despite mousing, that's still our most prevelant form of coding. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 3:15 PM Subject: RE: [U2] blank lines in code / mixed case > Along with Robert I also took Typing (along with football, tennis, soccer) > in High School and am glad I did. > > Eric > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Houben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] blank lines in code / mixed case > > > BTW, to the comment about straight guys not taking typing: I know that they > didn't usually, but when I was in high school back in the plasticine epoch > (right after the Pleistocene epoch), a bunch of my friends and I took typing > because we thought it would be an easy course (and there were girls in it!) > Given my career, it was one of the most useful courses I took in High School > - one of the few, in fact, where I can say that I still clearly reap the > benefits of it every day! > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > > > > > LOBEL FINANCIAL PRIVACY NOTICE: > This communication may contain confidential company information that is protected by federal law. Federal regulations prohibit the disclosure (or re-disclosure) of confidential information without the written consent of the person(s) to whom it pertains. Additionally, the views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
