Will MySQL die soon ?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Andrew Gould wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> I read once that the qwerty keyboard layout was arranged to spread  
>> work evenly across fingers and hands; and the fact that 'database' is  
>> typed with only the left hand ('sinister', in Latin) is a clear  
>> indication that databases are truly unnatural.
>>
>> (If you know to whom the above line should be attributed to, please  
>> let me know.)
>>
> The qwerty keyboard was conconcted to separate the hammers of letters  
> that frequently occur in sequence.  That reduced the likelihood of 
> jamming.

It was designed specifically to slow down typists as the early
typewriters were prone to jamming.

Advocates of the Dvorak keyboard say it's much more efficient,
but it has not been generally accepted as people tend to use what
then know (e.g. I have never been able to untrain my fingers from
the One True Editor(tm) vi(m) to learn emacs).

Bill
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