7 Feb
2021
7 Feb
'21
6:49 a.m.
Doug said:
Among Fred's many distinctive and endearing
quirks was the fact that he was a confirmed two-finger typist--proof that
typing technique is an insignificant factor in programmer productivity.
I wrote my most lasting programs before I learned to type - many of which are still in
production some 20+ years later. Tolkeim and Gilbarco credit processors, SMTPE and IRIG-B
GPS satellite time signal processing hardware drivers, and others more ancient and
specialized. Ah, those were the days... not the good old days mind you, but memorable.
Am I alone in seeing the utter irony in my sitting here, my two thumbs searching
frantically for the right letters on a keyboard the size of a 1/3rd of a credit card,
designed to slow typists down (qwerty), missing as many letters as I get right? Ugh...
what lunacy progress hath wrought!
I thought this would be an excuse to tell another ftg
story, but I
don't want to repeat myself and a search for "Grampp" in the tuhs
archives
misses many that have already been told. Have the entries been lost or
is the index defective?
What’s an ftg? Grampp, I’ve heard about.
Will