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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Fortran
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 21:12:32 -0400
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On Sun, 11 May 2014 14:43:19 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
following:

>In article <mailman.9891.1399833209.18130.python-list@python.org>,
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Some things are more standardized than others. A piano keyboard is
>> incredibly standard, to make it possible to play without having to
>> look at your fingers (even when jumping your hands around, which
>> doesn't happen as much on a computer keyboard)
>
>Speaking of which, here's a trivia question.  Without looking at your 
>keyboard, describe how the "F" and "J" keys (assuming a US-English key 
>layout) differ from, say, the "G" and "K" keys.

	On most (US) keyboards, F/J well have some sort of tactile cue (raised
dot/bar, or deeper "dish"), indicating home position for the index fingers.
Typically the same can be said for the 5 key of a numeric pad.

	That said, I did encounter a keyboard years ago that put the tactile
markers on D/K.
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