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Actually Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, designer of Ruby is Japanese. It's pretty ironic, isn't it?

It's not ironic at all. One would expect that authors using a particular keyboard layout would tend to favor characters that are easy to type. In that way, it's the opposite of irony. The outcome is exactly what we'd expect.

> It's not ironic at all.

Ironically, my sentence was sarcastic. :)

OT: As far as you guys know, is there a language-agnostic keyboard for programmers?

See also the keyboard used to develop the original vi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg

That explains also the tilde=home :)

A recent article I've read somewhere explains it very well!

Seems rather apropos, really.

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