> As a programmer, I never really understood why the people who designed keyboards wouldn't have done so in a way that allowed for more common technical uses -

> As a programmer, I never really understood why the people who designed keyboards wouldn't have done so in a way that allowed for more common technical uses - why didn't they throw in a row of common mathematical symbols? Such keyboards were made in the 70/80s: http://xahlee.info/kbd/lisp_keyboards.html http://xahlee.info/kbd/lisp_keyboards.html The current standard keyboards come from a different evolutionary branch with a much more limited view of the possible uses for a computer.