Why the shuffled number sequence on programming dvorak?

Question

To my surprise I couldn't find this question already answered anywhere, so here I am asking, hoping that understanding the idea behind it would help me learn their positions faster.

So, why are the positions of the numbers on the programming dvorak how they are?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The Programmer Dvorak Keyboard Layout simply kept the original number sequence: https://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/

Note that the numbers are placed in an odd-even sequence, as in the original Dvorak layout.

Regarding the odd-even sequence, the smallest numerals are the most (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law) frequently used, they are therefore moved to the dominant fingers.