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Comment by eichin

Yeah, if the system I'm using has excessive latency (more of a 90s problem than today) precision means even when I do mistype, I'm "feeling" it and backspacing, not seeing them (since they haven't echoed yet.)

It's definitely about getting to the point where you're not thinking about typing, you're thinking about words/sentences/lines of code (or higher.)

I particularly noticed this when going from perl to python - in perl you were typing fewer characters, in python you could use more mainline english typing and not care that you were using more keystrokes...

parent eichin 3 years ago

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