I agree with Steve's point, but he's mostly talking about typing fast to participate in online communities, write more e-mails, etc. That sort of stuff doesn't require a "programmer's" Dvorak keyboard - so my point still stands. The act of programming doesn't require extremely fast input - especially as a lot of people use macros and shortcuts now anyway.
Using Dvorak to be a better participant in online forums, etc, is awesome, but you can use a regular Dvorak keyboard for that.
If you are going to learn Dvorak and you are a programmer, you might as well learn "Programmer's Dvorak" and be able to type your programs faster in addition to being a better participant in online forums etc, don't you think?
Maybe, but I guess like authors who say you only get the best results when writing slowly with a pen, I feel that speed should never be of the essence when typing code.
That said, I'm not a Java programmer, so I'm somewhat biased in my appreciation of brevity ;-)
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I agree with Steve's point, but he's mostly talking about typing fast to participate in online communities, write more e-mails, etc. That sort of stuff doesn't require a "programmer's" Dvorak keyboard - so my point still stands. The act of programming doesn't require extremely fast input - especially as a lot of people use macros and shortcuts now anyway.
Using Dvorak to be a better participant in online forums, etc, is awesome, but you can use a regular Dvorak keyboard for that.
If you are going to learn Dvorak and you are a programmer, you might as well learn "Programmer's Dvorak" and be able to type your programs faster in addition to being a better participant in online forums etc, don't you think?
Maybe, but I guess like authors who say you only get the best results when writing slowly with a pen, I feel that speed should never be of the essence when typing code.
That said, I'm not a Java programmer, so I'm somewhat biased in my appreciation of brevity ;-)
Okay :) Just for the record, I am not a Java or any other verbose language programmer either.