Vitaliy wrote:

> How far is "far"? If you could increase your typing speed twofold by
> simply switching to Dvorak, everyone would be using Dvorak and not
> QWERTY. The truth is, the gains you get are trivial, and matter more
> to record-setting typists than to regular Joes.

IMO the Dvorak layout is not mainly about increased typing speed or ease
of learning -- it's about less strain on the fingers. The finger
movements are shorter, and it's part of a strategy I use to ease the RSI
symptoms in my wrists. It does help, and that's not trivial -- and may
matter to regular Joes.

The fact is that good ergonomics was not a design goal for the original
keyboard; it was designed according to other constraints. Those
constraints were probably quite suited for mechanical typewriters like
they had them back then, but don't apply to other types of keyboards
(those ball-type typewriters, computer keyboard etc.) -- yet the design
was carried over, even though the reasons for it were long not given
anymore.

Quite similar to C :)

Gerhard
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