From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 2025-12-01 21:06:13, Keith Thompson wrote:   
   >   
   > The use of curly braces vs. begin/end is IMHO trivial.  [...]   
   >   
   > Someone who dislikes C for whatever reasons will probably dislike   
   > most other languages that use curly braces, and not necessarily   
   > because of that one syntactic detail.   
      
   There may also be just simple practical real-life facts that   
   influence the preferences of languages with curly braces (or   
   brackets). I want to remind that keyboards from other domains   
   may not have the simple access to the [ ] { } characters! On   
   my US keyboard [ and ] are adjacent and directly accessible,   
   and { and } are on the same keys reachable simply with 'Shift'.   
   That's extremely convenient if you're programming C-like syntax!   
   Though on my German keyboard these characters are placed on the   
   top numbers row in one line, ordered as { [ ] }, and reachable   
   only through the 'Alt Gr' key. This is really a pain to type.   
   For _very common characters_ in a fairly common and rich family   
   of programming languages it's an issue [in such non-US domains].   
      
   Janis   
      
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