I’d love to know what the result might have been if they gave some thought to the rest of you. And if a person is designing a programming language syntax, I don’t see why keyboards that are foreign, even unknown, to them merit much consideration.

BTW I really don’t think the en-us layout is actually nice on hands and fingers. All the programming symbols are a stretch. I now use Karabiner to make easy key-chords for all the symbols, e.g. f-j is ( and f-k is ).