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Originally Posted by HarryT
I guess it perhaps depends what job you do. As a programmer, I spend most of my day concentrating on my laptop's screen.
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I spent about 35 years as a programmer, beginning well before computers had screens until the mid to late 1990s. I forget what year I retired.
I could read my code on the screen all day long. I sometimes would get a bit of eyestrain but not often and not bad. When I tried reading on my Palm or on my home computer screen I found I was limited to about 20 minutes of reading, after which I could take a minute break and do another 20 minutes. If I didn't take that break I was done reading for a few hours.
Reading means constant focus on the screen. Programming involves looking at the keyboard, at documents, at the guy in the next desk, at my coffee cup, etc. They're really different things.
Barry