Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
People that use extended character-sets (e.g., UTF) – but don't have an international keyboard – or meta-characters need escape keys (especially if their keyboard lacks a number-pad).
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
People that use extended character-sets (e.g., UTF) – but don't have an international keyboard – or meta-characters need escape keys (especially if their keyboard lacks a number-pad).
Or people who have accessibility requirements and have difficulty pressing chorded key combinations.