Interesting thing is, my roomy-at-work has a Ultra 5.
It is like a crappy PC with a sparc chip inside and no connectivity (you must use their Type 5 keyboard bus, and it has a floppy drives with an EJECT button) (ack)
FWIW my 6 year old 100 Mhz SGI Indy pretty much blows the Ultra out of the water when it comes to graphics.
1. *Don't* get surgery. Because of formation of scar tissue, your problem may get worse, especially if you keep on typing the way you do. And remember: cutting in tissue can not be undone, so always use surgery as a last resort
2. *Do* take all the advice given here about ergonomics, input devices, stretching, breaks etc.
3. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a serious medical condition. If you think something is wrong, you have to see a doctor (which you did not, from what I've read). CTS is a condition which can be objectively diagnosed. If you are "convinced of the need for surgery", it doesn't mean medical science agrees with you.
SO: Go see a doctor
4. An important risk factor in RSI conditions is stress. I think you will be much better off doing some kind of therapy or practicing sports
For stress reduction and muscle relaxation, you might try sports without extreme muscle strain (Tai-Chi, perhaps Aikido) or meditation (Yoga?)
5. An important risk factor in RSI conditions is posture. I think you will be much better off doing posture therapy, eg. Feldenkrais, Alexander, Mensendieck, C\'esar, etc.
As a personal note, I had major complaints for years, and thought I had CTS. Only when I visited a posture therapist (Mensendieck), I discovered that my (backward) slouching made me put strain on my shoulders. My shoulder muscles would swell and put stress on my nerves and vessels, resulting in cold and tingling hands.
6. There are lots of resources on RSI on the net. A good start is the sci.med. (?).rsi.moderated newsgroup
* The language as a whole is too big. One could decide not to use the entire language (eg. leave out the operator overloading), but that is likely to give longer and less efficient solutions, which defies the point of using C++ in the first place: having very fast, compiled OOP programs.
* The language lacks features that make it difficult to reuse code: for example - garbage collection - interfaces/signatures - standardised libraries--almost every C++ program I've seen comes with its own list, array and string classes.
* Any reasonably big project is going to have extra infrastructure (an embedded language, a component/module architecture, etc.). Using C++ pushes this point somewhat into the future. But when this point is reached, you have more code to convert, and you also have to deal with the messy semantics of C++ which will be in your class structure.
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Interesting thing is, my roomy-at-work has a
Ultra 5.
It is like a crappy PC with a sparc chip inside and no connectivity (you must use their Type 5 keyboard bus, and it has a floppy drives with an EJECT button) (ack)
FWIW my 6 year old 100 Mhz SGI Indy pretty much blows the Ultra out of the water when it comes to graphics.
1. *Don't* get surgery. Because of formation of scar tissue, your problem may get worse, especially if you keep on typing the way you do. And remember: cutting in tissue can not be undone, so always use surgery as a last resort
.rsi.moderated newsgroup
2. *Do* take all the advice given here about ergonomics, input devices, stretching, breaks etc.
3. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a serious medical condition. If you think something is wrong, you have to see a doctor (which you did not, from what I've read). CTS is a condition which can be objectively diagnosed. If you are "convinced of the need for surgery", it doesn't mean medical science agrees with you.
SO: Go see a doctor
4. An important risk factor in RSI conditions is stress. I think you will be much better off doing some kind of therapy or practicing sports
For stress reduction and muscle relaxation, you might try sports without extreme
muscle strain (Tai-Chi, perhaps Aikido) or meditation (Yoga?)
5. An important risk factor in RSI conditions is
posture. I think you will be much better off doing posture therapy, eg. Feldenkrais, Alexander, Mensendieck, C\'esar, etc.
As a personal note, I had major complaints for years, and thought I had CTS. Only when I visited a posture therapist (Mensendieck), I discovered that my (backward) slouching made me put strain on my shoulders. My shoulder muscles would swell and put stress on my nerves and vessels, resulting in cold and tingling hands.
6. There are lots of resources on RSI on the net.
A good start is the sci.med. (?)
* The language as a whole is too big. One could
decide not to use the entire language (eg. leave out the operator overloading), but that is likely to give longer and less efficient solutions, which defies the point of using C++ in the first place: having very fast, compiled OOP programs.
* The language lacks features that make it difficult to reuse code: for example
- garbage collection
- interfaces/signatures
- standardised libraries--almost every C++ program I've seen comes with its own list, array
and string classes.
* Any reasonably big project is going to have
extra infrastructure (an embedded language, a component/module architecture, etc.). Using C++ pushes this point somewhat into the future. But when this point is reached, you have more code to convert, and you also have to deal with the messy semantics of C++ which will be in your class structure.