Indeed. On a Swedish keyboard the semicolon is not the biggest problem though. {}[] are since you need to press right-alt+number keys to get them. Really awful. It takes a very short time using an American keyboard for coding to realize its benefits.

Still, even on an American keyboard () are not terribly well placed.

I've been thinking about adopting the NEO2 layout(with some modification so that I get all of åäö) but haven't gotten around to it yet. Has anyone tried that for programming?