From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:22:53 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme) In-Reply-To: <00ce01d3648f$a65ed4d0$f31c7e70$@ronnatalie.com> References: <00ce01d3648f$a65ed4d0$f31c7e70$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <20171123212253.B8E312019D@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Hi Ron, > Years ago at BRL, we had a division chief that typed with only two > fingers. Being able to touch-type is a boon to the programmer, but I did work with one old-timer used to writing and having someone else do the punching. When forced to use one of these fangled electronic keyboards, he would sit and think for a while and then hunt-and-peck out up to a dozen lines, no editing required, then resume thinking. I suppose it was the equivalent of not having to rub out what he'd just written. Ian Fleming, I think, being a hack first before a novelist, said something about not starting to type a sentence until you know how it's going to end. Typing-correction fluid was probably the start of the slippery slope. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy