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I've worked with someone who looked at the keyboard when he typed, and overall wasn't a very fast typist (I'd estimate < 50 WPM). He made frequent use of tab c
by Pistos2 16y ago
I've worked with someone who looked at the keyboard when he typed, and overall wasn't a very fast typist (I'd estimate < 50 WPM). He made frequent use of tab completion and mouse-based copy-pasting. [Although he didn't use them] there's also double-click and double-click-and-drag copying, and the "features" of IDEs.
He produced code of quality on par with the rest of the team, and I never thought of him as having a final-product throughput less than the rest of us [who could type faster].
It's true that you can't hunt and peck and be even just a mediocre pianist, but performing music necessitates keeping tempo -- you must actuate your instrument at the right time, and poor mechanical skill on your part has direct and significant impact on the quality of the music. There is no such analogous requirement in coding, other than perhaps deadlines -- but that is obviously on an entirely different scale (no pun intended).