Re: suggestion for /usr/src/UPDATING

From: Kenneth Stailey (kstailey_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/31/04

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    Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:37:25 -0700 (PDT)
To: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>

    --- Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

    > On Aug 31, "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote:
    >
    > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:31:31PM -0700 I heard the voice of
    > > Brooks Davis, and lo! it spake thus:
    > > >
    > > > I agree the current default is confusing and counterintuitive, at
    > > > least at first.
    > >
    > > I don't!
    > >
    > > It's been a whole lotta years since I ever put any conscious thought
    > > into which hand I'm using to type a letter. I just decide to type
    > > that letter. 'l' for the left side, and 'r' for the right side make
    > > perfect sense; it would never even occur to me to think about which
    > > hand is being used.
    >
    > I also think it's very important to consider neurology here. Quoting a
    > medical text:
    >
    > * Nerves from the brain cross over at neck-level to the opposite side of the
    > * body, and nerves from the other side of the brain reciprocate. The end
    > * result is that the opposite sides of the body are supplied by the opposite
    > * sides of the brain.
    >
    > So it's deceptive to think that using the left hand would correspond to
    > the *idea* of something on the left. You see linux people making these
    > kind of arguments all the time, and I'd really hate to see FreeBSD run
    > with this idea just to "keep up with the Torvaldses."
    >
    > Mike

    I'm starting to feel sorry I said anything.

    I'm also starting to like Gentoo just a tiny bit more.

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