On 2010-09-19, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > AK wrote: >> Afaik the idea is that you can read a novel at the speed of half a page >> a second or so and understand it to the same extent as people who'd read >> at a normal rate.
> I've never understood why anyone would *want* to read a > novel that fast, though. For me at least, reading a novel > is something done for pleasure, so reading it at ten times > normal speed would waste 90% of the benefit. I get pleasure from the story, not from the time spent. Reading faster means I get more stories. Same thing, to some extent, with programming. I could easily spend much more time writing some programs by switching to a language ill-suited to them (say, using C for heavy string manipulation, or PHP for anything), but that wouldn't mean I had more fun, it would mean my fun was spread out over a longer period of time, and might well cross over to no-longer-fun. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
