> 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.
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.