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by fouric
1866 days ago
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I agree with you. I also think that the keyboard was likely designed to be familiar to those comfortable with the standardized keyboard layout, as opposed to being efficient. From an efficiency perspective, there's a lot that you can improve on, both in the general case (layout for English typing) and in the special case of Lisp programming - but I don't think that was their goal. I wouldn't buy one of these myself, but I can understand why someone else would. As a software hack, there's always Shift Parentheses[1]. [1] https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#s17... |
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On any PC keyboard, just swap parentheses with square or curly brackets. That is way more useful even if you never program in Lisp. One of several things the Lisp Machine keyboard layouts did well.