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Re:The Origin of QWERTY by ben_bai on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @12:07PM (#11290645)
On a german keyboard Z and Y are switched, and all the punctuation character are all wrong. So much better to program with a US keyboard than a german one!
Re:The Origin of QWERTY by burgessaccount on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @12:21PM (#11290773)
Haha, that does sound deeply annoying. But makes sense given German words. I really don't know which is better, to standardize or personalize...
Re:The Origin of QWERTY by webjprgm on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @03:05PM (#11292160)
It's kinda like adjusting the seat position in a car. If you could have each individual user's preferences saved somewhere and applied to every car/computer when you sit down to use it, then personalization wins.
Re:The Origin of QWERTY by webjprgm on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @03:03PM (#11292154)
Similarly some punctuation is moved on a Spanish keyboard, but often in Venezuela and Chile I ended up using an American keyboard with Spanish layout so I had to just know which keys were which because the letters printed on them were wrong. Fortunately at that time I was not doing a lot of programming because it was annoying.