Programmer Dvorak

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The Programmer Dvorak layout

Programmer Dvorak is a Keyboard Layout developed by Electronics engineer Roland Kaufmann and targeted towards people writing source code for C, Java, Pascal, LISP, CSS and XML. The layout is based on the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, with several enhancements intended to make typing easier for programmers.

[edit] Differences from Dvorak

While the alphabetic keys are placed as on the original Dvorak layout, most of the others are changed. The most noticable difference is that the top row is devoted to brackets and other operational characters, and the numbers must be accessed using the shift key. Also, differing from most Dvorak implementations but following August Dvorak's original design, the numbers are not placed in ascending order.