You can not be serious. Most of these scientist guys use Fortran 77, and will not even consider using a RAD tool for coding.Let alone the fact that they already know how to crunch code with built in multithreading for their unix cluster. And of course no university will buy 100+ licences of windows when their admin can produce a unix/linux cluster easily....
You should understand that good designers like good architects , try to encompass good design in everything they make. And what is good design ? it's an artifact projected in to the future, with the intention that the artifact Works, For every probable user. With a standard american keyboard you don't get to have greek or cyrillic characters, while with the design of the optimum you can have Every Language's character map available with a simple , more or less , keystroke and without having to deal with visual clutter on the keys.
The enter key here seems out of place but I think that you'll never missfire another key in the process of trying to hit enter, considering the position and the size of the Enter key in this deisgn.
Also do not forget that a keyboard like that can help a newbie learn the keystrokes to software he is learning or reimnd the master user an arcane keytroke he has forgotten... or help you change between OSes, or incorporate in your workflow a strange program like Blender for example.
So the intended audience here is everyone else and not you. You should buy something else to fit your individual workflow , or desired effect of less keystrokes or less travelling of your fingers...
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You can not be serious. Most of these scientist guys use Fortran 77, and will not even consider using a RAD tool for coding.Let alone the fact that they already know how to crunch code with built in multithreading for their unix cluster. And of course no university will buy 100+ licences of windows when their admin can produce a unix/linux cluster easily....
one word only to do these in linux : blender www.blender3d.org
You should understand that good designers like good architects , try to encompass good design in everything they make. And what is good design ? it's an artifact projected in to the future, with the intention that the artifact Works, For every probable user. With a standard american keyboard you don't get to have greek or cyrillic characters, while with the design of the optimum you can have Every Language's character map available with a simple , more or less , keystroke and without having to deal with visual clutter on the keys.
The enter key here seems out of place but I think that you'll never missfire another key in the process of trying to hit enter, considering the position and the size of the Enter key in this deisgn.
Also do not forget that a keyboard like that can help a newbie learn the keystrokes to software he is learning or reimnd the master user an arcane keytroke he has forgotten... or help you change between OSes, or incorporate in your workflow a strange program like Blender for example.
So the intended audience here is everyone else and not you. You should buy something else to fit your individual workflow , or desired effect of less keystrokes or less travelling of your fingers...