23 Nov
2017
23 Nov
'17
10:22 p.m.
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.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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