I use Dvorak everywhere. For programming, I frequently use editor macros to enter paired braces; but that's to save on effort on alignment and indenting. For other punctuation, there's little to choose between Dvorak and Qwerty. The square brackets are slightly further away, but equals is closer. That's about it.
Re:Resolutions for programmers
by colonel_panic on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @05:33PM
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"Since programming isn't primarily normal English language text, Dvorak really doesn't help"
Here's a late Christmas present: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
But I've found it doesn't provide a lot of speed improvement, and for programming (with all its punctuation) I still use QWERTY. Since programming isn't primarily normal English language text, Dvorak really doesn't help, plus you have to touch-type.
What I use Dvorak for is for proper, sit-down, full-screen writing. I'm not sure it's much faster, but it's far more comfortable to type. QWERTY always "gets in the way" physically a bit when I write, but Dvorak lets my hands basically disappear as a barrier between brain and page. It just makes writing feel effortless.
Also -- Dvorak is useful for English only. When I write in Portuguese, it's not nearly as useful.