Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!stretch.cs.mun.ca!leif!cloader From: cloader@kean.ucs.mun.ca Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Left Handed programmers (was Sinister Hackers 8-)) Message-ID: <125917@kean.ucs.mun.ca> Date: 16 Aug 90 22:19:13 GMT References: <1990Aug6.233133.4791@actrix.co.nz> <10401@stiatl.UUCP> <1990Aug16.080332.1572@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk> Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada Lines: 24 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 ... I wonder what the > -distribution is across the industry? Perhaps it could become part of the > -recruitment process! > > 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. > > For the humor-impaired: :-) :-) :-) > -- > > Jeff d'Arcy, Generic Software Engineer - jdarcy@encore.com > Nothing was ever achieved by accepting reality The escape key might be on the correct side BUT the key pad certainly isn't! Does such a thing as a left handed keyboard exist? How about left handed 3-key mice? Charles