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 sample BASIC programs (or production ones) that are written in all caps, so I do that. I've also gotten good at doing the reverse caps thingy.
That is, you are typing a program all in caps, and come to a line of user-text that needs to be mixed case, so I hold the shift key down to type lower case, releasing it for any letter that need's capitalization. I can do this at about 50 words per minute. I think I run about 70 in normal case, when I'm on a roll. How's that for a boundary skill? :) 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 u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
