Re: [wlug] Slow typists

Quoting Glyn Webster <glyn(a)wave.co.nz>:

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

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... Were Thompson & Richie really slow on the keyboard?

Indeed. Ken Iverson was slower still.

Perhaps he still is, witness "J"

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.

Does that produce fewer bugs? Wonder how many HOCS* that was. * Holes of Code