Yup. The less I need to keep my mind on
how to type, the more I can keep my mind on
what. Hunting for punctuation/braces is
slooow, 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.
Steve Yegge talks about it some: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtie...
