Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwic!encad!enint!tsnider From: tsnider@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM (Tim Snider) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Left Handed programmers (was Sinister Hackers 8-)) Message-ID: <652@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM> Date: 21 Aug 90 15:05:28 GMT References: <1488@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <19624@well.sf.ca.us> <12772@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Aug20.084113@bert.llnl.gov> <10964@celit.fps.com> Reply-To: tsnider@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM (Tim Snider) Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, KS Lines: 29 Keywords: In article <10964@celit.fps.com> ps@fps.com (Patricia Shanahan) writes: > >However, I know a lot of people who will go out of their way, even when it >is obviously inconvenient, to use a particular hand. They always learn new >activities with the same hand in the leading role. They will do an awkward >backhand throw rather than throw something with the wrong hand. It is >especially obvious when someone is strongly left-handed, because they >have trouble using commonly occuring right handed equipment. They look >for and buy special scissors, rather than just using ordinary ones right >handed. I am left handed also and I'll agree with Pat. A majority of the tools I use put me in the HIGHLY unsafe catagory because of the way I'm forced to use them. E.G. the circular saw is a good example, I want to cut on the left side of the wood. I am forced to hold the saw up it will be somewhat square since the motor is on the left. Otherwise the cut would be at some undesirable angle. I also have looked at chain saws and can't buy one since the guards and general design is exclusively for righthanders. For me to use it my leg would be place on the unprotected side of the chain. I am a 'heavy' lefthander and things would definitely be a lot easier for me if I were not. But there is a small contridiction, my mouse is on the right hand side. Keyboard configura- tions don't bother me unless the keys are tiny/placed strangely. my .02. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Snider 316-636-8736 or 8048 NCR Peripherial Products Div. 3718 N Rock Road. Wichita Ks. 67226 tim.snider@wichita.NCR.COM