Ergonomics (was Re: Question mark in variable and function names

Ville Vainio ville at spammers.com
Wed Oct 13 03:19:49 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Cliff" == Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net> writes:

    Cliff> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 12:08 +0300, Ville Vainio wrote:

    >> Incidentally, I've remapped my keyboard so that ( and ) don't
    >> require pressing shift.

    Cliff> *smacks forehead and cries*

Why? Ergonomics is a matter that is taken into account way too rarely,
just observe how frequently programmers complain about RSI these
days. Python is pretty ergonomic for the most part (not too much
punctuation, popular habit of preferring lowercase letters) but it's
often a good idea to go for a little extra edge :).

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Ville Vainio   http://tinyurl.com/2prnb



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