Ken

I think you've raised an interesting point there, it would be
interesting to ask the indenters and disdenters about their
orientation when it comes to handidness.  It had never occurred
to me that indenting (the way we know it), was probably first
invented and then spread by a right handed person

Cheers
Steve

Ken wrote:
> 
> 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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