"Since I am a Lisp programmer, the positions of parentheses and quotes are terribly inconvenient. Typewriter paired keyboards had parentheses on 9 and 0, while logical-paired keyboards had parentheses on 8 and 9. I also disliked the narrow keys on some Personal Computers."
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