Re: 80% OT: keyboard symbols

From: gswork (gswork_at_mailcity.com)
Date: 11/11/03 

Date: 11 Nov 2003 00:49:47 -0800

"Thomas G. Marshall" <tgm2tothe10thpower@hotmail.replaceTextWithNumber.com> wrote in message news:<4MOrb.9855$hB5.9185@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>...
> Do you suppose that entering code source would be easier if their were a
> dedicated row above the number row on the querty keyboard, with just the
> symbols on it, such that the $ would be above the 4 key etc.
>
> To avoid having to shift.
>
> You could use the f1-f12 row on pc keyboards I suppose, but they don't line
> up right. I often wonder this, and no matter how many decades I've been
> doing this, still fat-finger the wrong key.
>
> Perhaps them pesky symbols to the right of the alphas are worse.

I'm not so convinced the 'cost' of shifting is really that
significant. If you work on various computers and laptops you
encounter difference layouts, different places for the various
symbols.

Perhaps everyone has a favourite keyboard induced bug in their source?

for instance, I did one in c:

if (i-j)
{
 do_things();
}

it should have been if (i=j) of course.

I'm sure there are folks who created some weird bugs bu virtue of
keyboards (regular ones or the more 'exotically' laid out ones)