The missing curly-braces in the Atari font made ports of C compilers a little awkward. In '82, trigraphs hadn't made the scene yet, and my roommate used $( .. $

The missing curly-braces in the Atari font made ports of C compilers a little awkward. In '82, trigraphs hadn't made the scene yet, and my roommate used $( .. $), but it was pretty ugly. In my opinion it was still way less ugly than trigraphs, when they arrived ....