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Subject: Re: QWERTY was not designed to intentionally slow typists down (was: Unicode normalisation [was Re: [beginner] What's wrong?])
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 00:06:16 -0400
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On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:09:57 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:
\>
>Hey, that's a little unfair. Remember, lots of people still have to
>write C code, so the semicolon is an important character! :) In fact,
>skimming the CPython source code (grouped by file extension) shows
>that C code has more semicolons than j's or k's:
>
	And is positioned under the, nominally, weakest finger of the right
hand.
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