Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:30:43 -0700, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> >declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> More than that, any layout "more efficient" than QWERTY is practically >> meaningless. The whole "intentional inefficiency" thing in the design of >> the QWERTY layout is an urban legend. > > Oh, there was an "inefficiency" in QWERTY -- but it only applies to >fully manual typewriters, in which some of the more common letters were >placed under the weakest fingers -- to slow down key strokes enough to >reduce jamming multiple type blocks
That's what I was referring to. That's a very common belief, but it's nonsense. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
