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Along with Robert I also took Typing (along with football, tennis, soccer)
in High School and am glad I did
They did teach keyboarding at my son's school, but with all of the phone
texting that people (young people mainly) do these days is typing as we
know it going to become obsolete?
Do they even teach typing in school these day? My 15 year old daughter
(who has had access to a computer since
All,
My typing teacher actually sat down and cried after a session with
me. On that note, I'd like to suggest that the High School musings move
to U2-Community.
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] blank lines in code / mixed case
Bill... I never meant to imply that a) I was offended, b) that I'm
somehow
any better than anyone else on this list, or c) that I'm a slow
typist.
I
actually went through typing in high school (a most traumatic story)
and got
reasonably good at touch typing
and correct fingering.
David A. Green
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Along with Robert I also took Typing
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They did teach keyboarding at my son's school, but with all of the phone
texting that people (young people mainly) do these days is typing as we
know it going to become obsolete?
Do they even teach typing in school these day? My 15 year
You can always count on an old brass-pounder to get the job done.
73 de (ex)WA4BCG
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] blank lines in code / mixed case
I understand your point Brian. So what do we do with the situation where
upper case is actually more readable to me and yet less readable to you?
How do we rationalize such a dichotomy?
-K
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Jerry Banker wrote...
If you ever want a scare then go through the programs in the Universe
BP
file. Some are upper case program lines with mixed case comments and
prompts, the way I prefer it, some are all lower case, some are mixed
case, and some are a mixture of all
] On Behalf Of Kevin King
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Bill, I followed you until this:
* Upper case is an anachronism and should be treated as such
rather than defended. It is unwieldy for far too many
Bill, I followed you until this:
* Upper case is an anachronism and should be treated as such rather than
defended. It
is unwieldy for far too many and, in fact, interferes with efficient typing
at every
turn. Forcing people to use [Caps Lock] in U2 while all other used
applications
require
that puts bread on your table.
Jerry Banker
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Kevin:
I'm sorry to say, on this rare occasion I
I understand your point Brian. So what do we do with the situation where
upper case is actually more readable to me and yet less readable to you?
How do we rationalize such a dichotomy?
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it out for itself. Duh.
7. Go for a beer.. and find a typing course.
Brian
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valid for
such a small command set?
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Bill, I followed you until this:
* Upper case
To paraphrase the ABATE folks: Let those who code decide.
Unless I can get Donald Knuth to chime in on the subject (not likely
since he stopped using email in 1990) I doubt that any of us are going
to change each others minds. Especially the dinosaurs (used lovingly,
and I include myself).
on email groups like this .. when someone types all in caps
people complain that they are yelling G
DSig
David Tod Sigafoos
SigsSolutions, Inc.
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From: Brian Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date
Mike Farrant skrev:
snip---
PS I find unix irritating that it does not recognise LS when I mean ls
or CP when I mean cp - how hard can it be to have both cases valid for
such a small command set?
Not hard at all really: Put the following commands in Your environment
file file:
alias
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I understand your point Brian. So what do we do with the situation
where
upper case is actually more readable to me and yet less
I've been listening to this with a mix of amusement and sympathy. I've been
doing integration work between (originally DOS) and PICK since the early 80's,
and have found myself shifting between C/C++/C#/Java/Other and PICK on a
regular basis. I've come to accept that most of my customers want
I am not sure that is a good argument .. a simple 15-20 line program FIND
will convert all to upper case and do a search that way.
DSig
David Tod Sigafoos
SigsSolutions, Inc.
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Along with Robert I also took Typing (along with football, tennis, soccer)
in High School and am glad I did.
Eric
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] blank lines in code / mixed case
I am not sure that is a good argument .. a simple 15-20 line program FIND
will convert all to upper case and do a search that way.
DSig
David Tod Sigafoos
SigsSolutions, Inc.
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From: Eric Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Along with Robert I also took Typing (along with football, tennis,
soccer)
in High School and am glad I did.
Eric
to
use tools by helping my Dad with chores. ;-)
Susan Lynch
FW Davison Company
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I was not trying
Typing and speed reading. Really came in handy too.
BTW, to the comment about straight guys not taking typing:
Charles Shaffer
Senior Analyst
NTN-Bower Corporation
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at our high school. We really broke the mold...
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I was not trying to offend
for it!
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SNIP
the local public high school
SNIP
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Do they even teach typing in school these day? My 15 year old daughter
(who has had
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No offence taken. I got your point. I was just pointing out that
some
boys saw benefits courses like typing! :) I think we took it for
reasons that were a bit
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I was not trying to offend anyone with that remark but back in the day
typing was something that girls took and boys
They teach the 21st century equivalent -- keyboarding.
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Do they even
, March 10, 2008 6:12 AM
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Bill, I followed you until this:
* Upper case is an anachronism and should be treated as such rather than
defended.
It
is unwieldy for far too many and, in fact, interferes with efficient
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From: Jerry Banker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I was not trying to offend anyone with that remark but back in the day
typing was something that girls took and boys took shop
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And one last point to really fire up some folks: To those who think mixed
case is more readable, I offer this: It's syntax, not literature. While we
should do everything we can to make the code as human readable as possible,
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I am admittedly a dinosaur of the upper-case bent with U2. Before I put on
my flame suit, hear me out..
We developers type thousands - possibly even millions - of characters of
code per year To press the letter R with caps lock
Dennis
I have no idea why your code should not compile ... I always use plenty of
whitespace and, yes, for the past 15+ years I've been using mixed case. For
good reasons - once you get used to ie (and that *IS* the caveat) it's much
quicker to scan. That's why all modern languages use it.
Of
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Dennis
I have no idea why your code should not compile ... I always use plenty of
whitespace and, yes, for the past 15+ years I've been using mixed case. For
good reasons - once you get used to ie (and that *IS* the caveat) it's much
quicker
I am admittedly a dinosaur of the upper-case bent with U2. Before I put on
my flame suit, hear me out..
We developers type thousands - possibly even millions - of characters of
code per year To press the letter R with caps lock on or off is only one
keypress - keeping in mind the state of the
with the occasional upper case character to
split/enhance a certain variable. Not just randomly mixed case !
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