Imagine that you're learning your first programming language. You don't read Hacker News, and you can't imagine why having curly braces on a keyboard is more us

Imagine that you're learning your first programming language. You don't read Hacker News, and you can't imagine why having curly braces on a keyboard is more useful than a snowman character. Then, getting a working conditional statement might be a revelation. I still remember the first program I ever wrote. It was about 15 years ago, and all it did was convert a Celsius temperature to Fahrenheit in C. It was thrilling, and I don't think it even included a conditional!