The Story of Curly Braces in Coding

Where it came from, how it’s doing, will it last?

Elye - A One Eye Developer
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readAug 27, 2020

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If you look at the programming languages we have today, more often than not, you will find this wonderful symbol { and } used in the programming language.

What is it for? Simple, it is to tell the compiler (or interpreter) the beginning and the end of the code block. And of course, you can have…

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