edit: a couple of funny things for italian keyboards, if you are a programmer or use linux/unix: there is no backtick, there is no tilde, '/' is shift-7, '/' and '?' are on different keys, '{}' are on altgr-shift-è.
That keyboard layout doesn't seem particularly well-suited to programming. Then again, it doesn't seem particularly well-suited to typing Italian, either, though I now understand why Italians often write E' instead of È.
It might go a long way to explaining why I don't come across many Italian Unix sysadmins, and the few I have come across coded their system scripts in php.
edit: a couple of funny things for italian keyboards, if you are a programmer or use linux/unix: there is no backtick, there is no tilde, '/' is shift-7, '/' and '?' are on different keys, '{}' are on altgr-shift-è.