Margus Ramst wrote:

> OK, have it your way. But tell me, what method do you use to keep track of
> the matching braces, unions within unions etc - all in one line? I must
> admit I simply couldn't do it.
> 
> Margus

Since you asked for it...


  Perhaps there in lies the problem er I mean difference between
our different implementations of writing code. I presume that you
have some formal education in a programming environment. I on the
other hand have not had that influence thrust upon me. Therefore I
have no methods. Where no methods are employed no method is needed
to maintained it. I just simply write code as if I were sending a
letter to a close friend. I read and write it from left to right
and top to bottom. It makes perfect sense to me and I cannot imagine
doing it any other way except when I have to communicate it to
someone else who is too rigidly structured to see it any other way.

  Another possibility is that I have the advantage of being a left
handed person who is forced to live in a right hand dominate world.
Everything ever made for operation by hand was optimized for the
convenience of the right handers of the world. Even the written
language, as written in the western world, is specifically stylized
for right handed people.

  Overcoming these many obstacles has given me unique opportunities
for expanding my mental and physical capabilities, to compensate for
the discriminatory policies that have been brought to bear against
me, as a member of the left hand minority population of the world.
I can often for example use either hand equally well in tasks a right
handed person would never even consider. It is not an innate ability
but one that has been precipitated by the need to survive in a
backward world.

  Given these challenges and the obstacles that I have overcome it is
nothing for me to read code left to right and mentally keep track of
where my curly braces are at the beginning and ending of an operation
in my scene file. Several studies indicate that left handed people have
better 3D adn 4d spatial perception, both in physical tasks and in the
way they approach conceptual problem solving, than their right handed
counter parts. This may be one form of it manifesting itself.


-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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