Defending the rodent (was Re: Defending the Python lanuage...)

[James_Althoff at i2.com]

[Alex Martelli]
>Now, if you type and edit fast, having your fingers stay close
>to the keyboard's home row has indisputable advantages wrt having
>them fly all over the place, to cursor keys or function keys or
>even worse separate devices like mice -- total travel distance and
>times for the fingers are greatly reduced.

Of course, if Douglas Englebart had had his way, this would all be moot.
Englebart -- who invented the computer mouse -- didn't like moving his hand
off the keyboard either.  So for his famous NLS system he devised a
one-handed "chording" keypad on which he typed (all characters) using his
left hand while manipulating the mouse with his right.  Decades later he
still maintained that this is *the* way to do it.  :-)

(QWERTY who?)

Jim