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Well... why not? --Edit: No, seriously, why not? There are only a few different opening-closing character pairs on a keyboard: [], (), <>, {}, /\, etc. It's no
by calinet6 14y ago
Well... why not?
--Edit: No, seriously, why not? There are only a few different opening-closing character pairs on a keyboard: [], (), <>, {}, /\, etc. It's not that different to type any of them.
So why is this even a question? It's because we used the others up and that was next on the list, and it looks somewhat logical as a container of things. So again, wholly and completely, the answer is in the question: "why not?"
- jonascopenhagen 14y agoBecause on non-English keyboards curly braces are a pain to type. E.g. in Danish it requires Alt + Shift + 8 (on a Mac), and if you look at the comments above you'll see that the problem is the same for many other languages.