Re: [wlug] Slow typists

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 9:11 pm, sns(a)paradise.net.nz wrote:

Following Tony's lecture tonight:

Were Thompson & Richie really slow on the keyboard?

Indeed. Ken Iverson was slower still. BTW: Some programmers never type at all. Donald Knuth wrote TEX sitting on his back porch poking holes in paper tape with a bent nail. It took him *hours* to get it finished working like that. -- Glyn Webster