[adwelly]

I'm a long term programmer and a very short term stenographer (over 20 years vs. 3 months). I'm cautiously optimistic that it could be a help with entering code given a correctly set up IDE. That said - I don't think the advantage is high speed entry of text. The speed of thought is the obvious bottleneck rather than typing speeds. Where there might be an advantage is that it might be possible to set up chords to do relatively complex structural manipulations of text and give that chord a useful phonetic name. The sort of thing that expert emacs users do almost as a matter of course. Learning emacs well would be a far more conventional approach of course but steno does offer the possibility of easier to remember commands (once you've understood and learned the phonetic system).