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> Well, I've mentioned this before as a cautionary issue, but reports are
> coming in of an impending world-wide shortage of curly braces.  Soon,
> languages that depend on curly braces will run out of this essential
> resource, and other languages will have to fill in the gap.  :-)

A little-known story on how these languages
came to be:  When C was being invented, there
was a shortage of letters.  Naturally the marketing
guys got first choice, and the programmers had
to settle for mostly punctuation marks.  It was
difficult even getting approval to give the name
"C" to the patriarch instead of "$"