1 Oct
2010
1 Oct
'10
10:51 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Zane H. Healy
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 10:45 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Voice recognition will never kill the keyboard was: Re:
Evolution of the Apple Mouse
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
When I first started writing code for a living (6800 assembly language), I was the only
programmer on the team who *could* touch-type. Everyone else was hunt-and-peck. -- Ian
What the heck are you talking about? In third
world countries maybe?
If
you've used a computer in the last 30 years,
you know how to type.
Most of
the population of G8 countries and the EU has
used a computer... They
have
them in schools and libraries now, you know :-)
I know IT professionals that don't know how to type. I don't know
about
now, but when I went to school, it was an optional class. Thankfully I
took
it, but it wasn't until I was spending a lot of time doing word
processing
on a Minicomputer, that I really learned to type.
Zane