Re: anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub.

I don't know about you guys and gals but I use the SHIFT key strokes as "think" time. All that time shifting and unshifting should be put to good use, so I do my part. Tab and backspace are other key strokes that can be used to gain some think time. The tab key will insert some number of "spaces" and you can use the backspace key to eat them up sometimes getting as much as 5 or 6 seconds to actually think about what you are doing. I surely hate AUTOINDENT! Smiles, John Thompson ""Greg Brunet"" <GBrunet@Semper_Soft.com> wrote in message news:9demra$9v$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... > I suppose you could look at it that way, but actually, since VB isn't > case-sensitive, it wouldn't matter how I typed it as long as I spell it > right. So it's not like a spell checker correcting my spelling. Rather, > it's like a word processor applying the paragraph style for me instead of me > having to set my indents & tab stops manually each time. > > Actually it does turn out to be both a productivity aid & verification tool. > It's faster because I don't have to shift case as I type & it verifies, > because if I see that it doesn't apply the proper case, I get immediate > feedback that I've mistyped the variable/function name. It would catch it > anyway when it compiles the code (just as C would catch an undefined > variable), but I don't have to wait till the compile step to correct it - I > can do it right there! > > There are a number of things that MS does wrong, but this part at least > they've got very right. > > -- Greg > > "Bradley Miller" <bradmiller@accesszone.com> wrote in message > news:3.0.3.32.20010510101438.00a06af0@mail.accesszone.com... > > Ok -- this too is not a flame, but just an opinion. I personally don't > > exactly like that much hand holding. It's like the "auto-correct" > features > > in MS products. Yea, it's great for productivity and that . . . but what > > reinforces the thought that you boo-boo'ed and didn't have to correct it? > > If I spell receive as "recieve" every time I type something . . . it's > > still not right in my mind . . . otherwise I wouldn't type it. When you > > don't have the crutch of the computer handy -- are you going to look like > a > > complete moron with all the "learned" typos that MS corrected for you? > > Tools should not instill bad practices and mask them for you. They are > > tools -- just that . . . they should enable you to work easier, but they > > shouldn't fix your work for you -- at least not automatically to where the > > conditioned response is "typos are good as long as the computer figures it > > out". > > > > -- Bradley Miller > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >