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Not just aesthetics, it's also a matter of ergonomics. ; is not the most comfortable thing to type, requiring either wrist rotation or an awkwardly bent pinky.



That's odd, I consider ';' as one of the easiest things to type. What kind of keyboard are you on?

I'm a C++ developer and go so far as to make it harder. I map ; to <esc> in vim, and enter the actual char with a second ; (from from normal mode).


On the US keyboard it probably is. On Finnish keyboard it's where < is on the US one, i.e. Shift-comma.


Yeah, I always felt a tiny bit sorry for non-US developers, especially using languages like Perl that use $ all over the place.


Dvorak does it better -- underscore is on the home row.




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