Python not healthy for you?
Yahoo! has a mandatory office ergonomics class that new employees have to attend, since a job that requires sitting by the computer all day long might be a bit stressful on the eyes, hands, neck, back and other parts of the body. They actually give some pretty valuable tips regarding the position of the monitor on the desk, ways to abuse your hands when using PC mouse, etc. The instructor mentioned a pretty interesting case, where the guy had a pretty bad injury due to frequent thumb usage for the Space key.
The cause for the injury? The guy was programming in Python, with its reliance on white space. With all respect to Paul Graham, C++/Perl/PHP are just healthier for you.
Posted in Entertainment, Programming, Technology, Yahoo! at October 18th, 2005. Trackback URI: trackback
October 26th, 2005 at 11:14 am #Alex
You can’t be serious. Perhaps that guy hasn’t heard of the Tab key, or of code editors that can do intelligent indentation for you.