30 Sep
2010
30 Sep
'10
6:49 p.m.
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Liam Proven wrote:
Mind you, come to that, as ordinary user PCs migrate
to being
multi-touch-operated slates, it could be that mice will disappear
altogether. Keyboards too, when the speech recognition gets good
enough.
I know many, many people that can type faster than they can talk. And then
there's programming. When every character matters, and many of them are
punctuation, speech recoginition (and speech for that matter) falls flat
on its face. It will never be faster to pronounce:
print join(',', map $_->(), @$closures), "\n" for 1..$num;
than it is to type it. And that's relatively readable; perl lets you code
with >50% punctuation...
When I see photos of the 'keyboardless' ipad, more often than not there's
a virtual keyboard taking up half of that very expensive screen... I
giggle and keep on typing :-)
Alexey