Ethan Furman wrote: > Eric S. Johansson wrote: >> >> yup how long will i[t] be before you become disablesd? maybe not as >> badly as I am >> but you should start feeling some hand problems in your later 40's to >> early 50's >> and it goes down hill from there. self preservation/interest comes to >> mind as a >> possible motive for action. I thought 15 years would be enough for >> somebody >> else to push the isssue but no. if it is going to be, it has to be me. > > For anyone who is still able to use their hands for typing, especially > if you're beginning to encounter the painful wrists, consider switching > to a Dvorak layout. It was a system I was curious about even before I > needed it, and when I did need it I was able to create the layout in > assembler (now, of course, it's widely available as a standard keyboard > layout). I started noticing the pain in my late twenties (aggravated, > I'm sure, by arthritis), but with switching to Dvorak the pain left and > has only very rarely been noticable again. It will mostly likely be a > challenge to switch, but well worth it.
a good suggestion but not really addressing the point I'm trying to make of building a system that would help people more profoundly injured. for example, I've tried Dvorak and the act of typing was so painful that I couldn't learn it -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
