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2 points by bcater 5928 days ago | link | parent

"?" takes 2 key presses to make, while "o" takes only 1.


3 points by shiro 5928 days ago | link

If one stroke of shift is so important, you should ditch () and use [] to represent the primary list structure :-)

(Or you would use Symbolics keyboard which you can type () without shifting.)

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2 points by vrk 5928 days ago | link

As a sidenote, square brackets are harder to type on Finnish/Swedish keyboards than ordinary parenthesis. The former requires Alt Gr + {8,9}, the latter Shift + {8,9).

(Why am I using the Finnish keyboard layout to edit code? A bad habit from the past, admittedly.)

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1 point by helium 5927 days ago | link

same in germany

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2 points by tokipin 5928 days ago | link

programmer dvorak: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/

been using it for about a year and dvorak in general for three or four. the difference in comfort vs qwerty is huge

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2 points by sacado 5928 days ago | link

or a french keyboard

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2 points by shiro 5928 days ago | link

good for french lispers! you can save 5-10% of typing!

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2 points by pg 5928 days ago | link

This is a good point, and in fact I consciously tried to make it possible to avoid shifting as much as possible.

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2 points by mdemare 5928 days ago | link

Yes, but of all the characters that need shift, "?" is surely the easiest.

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