Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!chinacat!chip From: chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Left Handed programmers (was Sinister Hackers 8-)) Keywords: Left Hand Message-ID: <1488@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 18 Aug 90 01:42:22 GMT References: <10401@stiatl.UUCP> <1990Aug16.080332.1572@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk> Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin, TX Lines: 28 In article jdarcy@encore.com (Mostly Harmless) writes: >adam@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk (Adam Curtin) writes: >-In my last job, in a development team of 4, 3 were left handed. >-We always joked about how left-handers were superior >Actually, there's a simple explanation. You see, hackers like to use EMACS, >and many important keystokes in EMACS (ESC, ^X, etc.) are left-hand-intensive. If this is true, then inferior programmers write CAD software, because they all must be right-handed. I'm tired of bozo programs which expect you to have a right hand on a mouse and a left hand on the keyboard... Reminds me of a story many years back... A VLSI test equipment company showed us the whizzy prototype of their new multi-million dollar tester. One of the features a nifty UNIX workstation as the system controller - complete with rodent and everything. The workstation was setup on a cute little roll-around cart. Forget the multi-megabit test pattern depth and sub-nanosecond timing accuracy. I took one look at the thing and said, "you need a left-hand mousepad option on the cart." They all just dropped their jaws, scratched their heads, and said, "oh yeah..." -- Chip Rosenthal | You aren't some icon carved out chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM | of soap, sent down here to clean Unicom Systems Development, 512-482-8260 | up my reputation. -John Hiatt