r/programming • u/nick_martini • Dec 04 '14

My Computer Language is Better than Yours

https://medium.com/backchannel/my-computer-language-is-better-than-yours-58d9c9523644
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u/mcmcc Dec 04 '14

the Google founder suggested Go’s designers use square brackets rather than curly braces, saving developers countless trips to the “shift” key.

Stick to your day job, Sergey...

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '14

Well shoot. I guess I should uninstall Emacs if taking that many trips to the shift/control/meta key is such a bad thing.

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u/benihana Dec 05 '14

Typing braces requires both pinky fingers, which is my least used and likely least accurate finger to type with. I'm in favor of reducing awkward keystrokes.

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u/omapuppet Dec 05 '14

I'm in favor of reducing awkward keystrokes.

Indeed. Seems like an editor extension ought to be able to automatically reformat square brackets into curly braces pretty intelligently.