Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!jarthur!bridge2!mdb From: mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Left Handed programmers (was Sinister Hackers 8-)) Message-ID: Date: 21 Aug 90 04:08:48 GMT References: <1488@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <19624@well.sf.ca.us> <12772@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Aug20.084113@bert.llnl.gov> <10964@celit.fps.com> Sender: news@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM Organization: 3Com Corp., Mountain View, CA. Lines: 38 In-reply-to: ps@fps.com's message of 20 Aug 90 19:33:02 GMT On 20 Aug 90 19:33:02 GMT, ps@fps.com (Patricia Shanahan) said: ps> I think there is more to the left/right handedness business. I am the same ps> general way as you. I tend to do things either with the hand that I first ps> learned to use for that activity, or with the more convenient hand if there ps> is one. I write right-handed, draw equally badly with both hands, started ps> using a mouse with it on the left because there was more room on my desk ps> that way, but switched to right handed because it was easier to work out ps> which button is which that way. (I actually first learned to write left ps> handed, using a pencil. When I was switched from pencil to dip pen and ink ps> I decided to switch to right hand writing.) ps> [...] ps> -- ps> Patricia Shanahan ps> ps@fps.com ps> uucp : ucsd!celerity!ps ps> phone: (619) 271-9940 I find that my experience matches that of Patricia. I do not have a strong preference for either hand, but the one that I learned with is slightly more proficient than the other hand. I usually consider myself to be ambidextrous rather than right or left handed, but that appears to be an even smaller group than being a left handed person. I can print with either left or right hand, but never bothered to practise cursive writing with the left and am not able to use the left for cursive writing. My mouse pad? Well, it is on the right because it is heavily biased for a right hand user and inconvient to use left handed (Control-Left mouse button is tough to do with the mouse on the left). -- Mark D. Baushke mdb@ESD.3Com.COM