I've always owned computers bought in the US, so naturally, I got used to american layout keyboards.
But in my current job, and in school, they only have Mexico-bought computers, so all they keyboards in those places are with a latin american layout.
But even if I try to hard, I can't efficiently program in a latin american keyboard. Here are some of the reasons why:
1. Most LA keyboards have the left shift cut in half so it fits another key (<, >), so I find myself writing <90 whenever I want to type a set of parentheses ().
2. Most LA keyboards have the Enter key across two rows but not as long as american ones. And since Enter is like the 2nd most used key when programming. I type \ a whole lot of times when trying to hit enter (I know that's not the key in the picture, but I always set they layout of the keyboard in the OS as american, so this key \ in american keyboards is moved to the one next to the enter in LA keyboards).
3. This is not the case in the keyboard on the pic, but at work, the backspace key is not long like I'm used to, it's just as big as any letter key, and it gives me a hard time. When I want to type = or +, I use the backspace key as reference to know if it's the right one (I don't look at the keyboard at all when typing).
Also, don't even get me started on when the keyboard layout is actually set as spanish. First of all, I use / a lot, and in spanish, it is in the 7 key, so shift+7 instead of just hitting it with the pinky like in US layout. Semicolon is heavily used when programming and in the US layout it's just next to the L, but in spanish Layout it's shift+,(comma), that is not good. Double quotes are shift+2 and the @ sign is AltGr+q
That's why I still have to use my laptop (US keyboard) to program at work, and I only use the Mac for other stuff, like seeing the preview of what I'm working on, or editing pics or stuff like that.


Wow, no wonder there isn't many programmers in Mexico :P jk. But seriously, that's so inefficient for programmers. You have to do twice the work!
ReplyDeletewell, i guess that worse than british keyboards....seriously, they have the " and \ in the wrong places, and those are used often..........but yeah, that sucks evem more hahha
ReplyDeleteMy laptop has the latin american keyboard and it can be a pain some times, but most of the times I have no problems because I use the US layout, the problem is when I want to visually find a key and I don't remember where it was.
ReplyDeletehaha awesome. My british keyboard is almost the same as the LA ones. Small shift key, big return key, etc. So keyboard post coming to show you!
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