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by obezyian 96 days ago
It is bad ergonomics only on modern keyboards. Back in the day, there were keyboards with "lower case parentheses"[1].

Same case for vi - the : key was in a different place, and no Shift necessary[2].

Nowadays, I use a bespoke layout (in software) that solves the above two problems, among others. My number row is inverted, so parentheses become lower case, and I put the colon key next to 0 and Enter next to P.

[1]: http://xahlee.info/kbd/lisp_keyboards.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A#Hardware