Comment by jerf

Also apocryphal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#Contemporaneous_alterna...

And it does a bad job at it, which is further evidence that it was not the design consideration. People may not have been able to run a quick perl script over a few gigabytes of English text, but they would have gotten much closer if that was the desire. I don't believe that was their goal but they were just too stupid to get it even close to right.