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A comment on Ask HN: Does touch typing make you a better programmer?.

Re:Ask HN: Does touch typing make you a better programmer? by dalke on Friday July 11, 2014 @06:05AM (#8019443)
According to Steve Yegge, yes, absolutely. See http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties... . The major points:

- "If you spend more time hammering out code, then in order to keep up, you need to spend less time doing something else."

- non-touch typists have less impact on text-based forums (like this one)

- "non-typist code is... minimalist. They don't go the extra mile to comment things"

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Re:Ask HN: Does touch typing make you a better programmer? by mpercy on Friday July 11, 2014 @06:31AM (#8019514)
Whoops, looks like our posts crossed on the wire. I definitely think Steve's post is worth the read - it hits home.
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