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Now why was fricken Semicolon given the prime real-estate of being an unshifted key?

• AnimalMuppet 2y ago
  To make it easier to code in C and Pascal ;-)
• andyferris 2y ago
  If we consider 100-year-old prose, we used the semicolon in places you see a dash now; like this - not this. It was important; it was located with period and comma and apostrophe.
  • Izkata 2y ago
    It's still used for complex lists: https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/semicolons_in_lists.htm https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/semicolons_in_lists....
• xethos 2y ago
  Because the smart way (with "M" there instead) was patented. From TFA (emphasis mine): > In order to evade the patents that were assigned to the Type Writer Company, WS&B slightly changed the design of No. 2 including the keyboard arrangement (Fig. 9), where M was moved next to N, and C was exchanged with X. It was the QWERTY keyboard arrangement as seen nowadays.