On Aug 17, 2013, at 2:01 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2013, at 11:58 PM, Nick Williams wrote: > >> >> On Aug 17, 2013, at 1:54 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: >> >>> That doesn't really help much. I find the syntax below oddly annoying. What >>> is strange is that I don't really mind it when there is only a single '-' >>> character but when there is more than one I find it irritating - especially >>> with size-based-triggering-policy. I can't tell you how many times I hit >>> '=' instead of '-' when typing it. >> >> Well there's an easy and obvious solution to THAT. Switch to Dvorak. You >> won't accidentally hit = instead of - then. QWERTY sucks. ;-) >> > > Right. Instead I will mistype everything. :-)
Hah! Off topic, I switched about two years ago. Before I was touch typing 70-80 WPM and my wrists hurt. All. The. Time. Now I touch type 100-110 WPM and my wrists rarely hurt anymore. QWERTY was invented for the typewriter, and it was intended to prevent jams by slowing typists down by moving all of the most commonly-used keys as far away from each other as possible. This causes you to constantly stretch and stress your fingers and wrists to type common words. Dvorak [1] was designed to bring the 11 most common keys to the home row, the 12 most common keys to the top row (second-easiest to reach), and the 10 least common keys to the bottom row (hardest to reach). It's possible to type dozens of entire words without your fingers leaving the home row. Only possible to type 1-2 that way with QWERTY. [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/KB_United_States_Dvorak.svg/400px-KB_United_States_Dvorak.svg.png
