> Like what? I hear this argument all the time, but it's always unsubstantiated. Have you ever done it? It's very comfortable. It reduces one element of fric

> Like what? I hear this argument all the time, but it's always unsubstantiated. Have you ever done it? It's very comfortable. It reduces one element of friction in the daily thought-work of the programmer. By the same token, a comfortable chair or nice text editor won't turn an amateur into an all-star programmer in the absence the other important stuff (smarts, work, etc.) It can be a huge waste of time to fret over your editor or your chair adjustments. But that's not going to make me less likely to sit in a nice ergonomic chair and use vim rather than notepad. Comfort isn't everything, but it's certainly not nothing.