Yup. The less I need to keep my mind on <i>how</i> to type, the more I can keep my mind on <i>what</i>. Hunting for punctuation/braces is <i>slooow</i>, and not much else is happening while you're doing that. Given the density of punctuation in code, that's a lot of context switching.<p>Steve Yegge talks about it some: <a href="https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest-little-secret.html" rel="nofollow">https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtie...</a>