[jaclaz]

Not really-really.

You are comparing your English QWERTY, with the French AZERTY, but there are many more languages QWERTY.

On the Italian keyboard (which is also QWERTY) the round brackets need Shift, but the square ones need AltGR.

[speedbird]

As it happens I’ve always found the American Querty keyboard much better for C programming than the English one due to bracket / punctuation layout.