Editing Alternative keyboard layouts (section)

=== Programmer Dvorak ===
{{infobox layout
| name       = Programmer Dvorak
| image name = Programmer-Dvorak-Layout.PNG
| creator    = Roland Kaufmann
| license    = [http://www.kaufmann.no:80/roland/dvorak/license.html "Roland Kaufmann License"]
| introduced = 2003 <ref name="programmer-dvorak-intro">[https://web.archive.org/web/20030216024436/https://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak Programmer Dvorak Intro Date]</ref>
| website    = [https://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak kaufmann.no]
| top row    = ;,.PY FGCRL
| middle row = AOEUI DHTNS
| bottom row = 'QJKX BMWVZ
}}
Programmer Dvorak was released by Roland Kaufmann in about 2003 to his own website. The stated goal of the layout is to eliminate RSI in the way Dvorak does for copy typist with optimizations for programmers. Symbol placement in Dvorak is seen as just as bad as QWERTY to writing source code in C, C#, Java, Pascal, Lisp, CSS, XML and alikes. Thus the changes to symbol placement is meant to reduce the distance to commonly used symbols in the most common programming languages of the time. This leads to number being scrambled, though in a meaningful way. The numbers hit by the left hand are odd and in descending order starting with 7 and wrapping back around to 9. The numbers hit by the right hand are ascending even numbers starting with zero. Symbols that are regularly under the number row are on the unshifted/lower case layer while the numbers are on the shifted/upper case layer. This is because symbols are more common in source code then numbers as having pre-defined numbers in source code is an anti-pattern. For languages other then English a "Compose Key" is used to create accented characters.<ref name="programmer-dvorak-homepage">[https://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak Programmer Dvorak Homepage]</ref>
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