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I am grateful far Roland Koffmans Programmers Dvorak, but I do have some issues with it. My opinion is based off of hundreds of hours programming with his layout.

One is the number placement. I could not get accustomed to the number placement. Programmers start their list at 0 and count up(usually) , so the number system should be sequential, starting at 0.

Also, the grouping of the normal brackets using symmetrical placement worked wonderfully for me, but not the french brackets. I do a lot of PHP and Javascript programming, so I use a lot of small logic structures, making the french brackets very important. I made the brackets symetrical(ish) on the keyboard.

On top of that, I love Esperanto. So I mapped those characters as well.

Normal :

Shifted :

Alt Gray :

Give it a test drive : Install Programisto Dvorak for Windows 7

Want to modify it? Download the MKLC Source File

For the uber nerds, I have also made a Linux XKB map of Programisto Dvorak.

Download the defs file : us_dvpo

Place that file in your symbols directory, or in the us definitions file : /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us

Add to  /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.xml and /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml

And insert the following xml defs in the United States section of your file :

<variant>
<configItem>
<name>dvpo</name>
<description>Programisto Dvorak</description>
</configItem>
</variant>

You should then have the new keyboard layout available.

After hearing decent reviews I decided to install Windows 7 on a machine and check it out. Very impressed by ever aspect except one. No support for programmers dvorak!

So I wasnt going to give up that easily. I searched and downloaded many keyboard remappers, and none came close to achieving anything that could be considered useful.

Final Solution :

Use Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, or MKLC to create a Programmers Dvorak Layout for Windows 7.

I quickly matched Koffmans layout and came up with :

Programmers Dvorak Keyboard Layout for Windows 7

I created a simple layout, that does not use the ALT-Gr keys, but if someone wants to go the extra mile

here is a link to the MKLC and here is a link to the source file