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Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012)

There was a surprising amount of discussion on Hacker News today on whether or not underscores are stupid, with suggestions ranging from changing key bindings to using the Dvorak layout. Here’s an alternative (although possibly slightly drastic) solution - get a Japanese keyboard:

I find the layout incredibly efficient for writing Ruby code (and to a lesser extent for other languages), and I’ve been using it for nearly 10 years now. Contrary to what I was expecting, the last PHP project I worked on had similar savings (despite using a camel-case coding standard): If Ruby is your thing the Japanese layout definitely feels more natural, and if typing the underscore character enrages you to the point where you have to write an article about it then it’s certainly worth considering :)

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