I don't know about your specific RSI case, but moving from Java or C to a scripting language like Perl or Python can be helpful, since there's up to 10x less LO

I don't know about your specific RSI case, but moving from Java or C to a scripting language like Perl or Python can be helpful, since there's up to 10x less LOC. Also, talk to an ergonomics person about it, and it sounds like notebooks are out at this point unless you have an external keyboard, mouse and monitor.