Curly-bracket Languages
The curly-bracket or curly-brace programming languages have a syntax that defines statement blocks using the curly bracket or brace characters { and }. A lot of these languages descend from or are strongly influenced by C. Examples of curly-bracket languages include:
- AS3
- ABCL/c+
- Alef
- Limbo
- AutoHotkey
- AWK
- bc
- BCPL
- C - developed circa 1970 at Bell Labs
- C++
- C#
- Candle
- ChucK - audio programming language
- Cilk - concurrent C for multithreaded parallel programming
- Coyote - safer C variant to lower the likelihood of some common errors, e.g., buffer overflows
- Cyclone - safer C variant
- D
- DASL - based on Java
- DINO
- eC (Ecere C)
- E
- ECMAScript
- ActionScript
- ECMAScript for XML
- JavaScript
- JScript
- MDMscript
- TypeScript
- Frink
- Haskell
- Humo
- ICI
- Java
- Processing
- Groovy
- Join Java
- Tea
- X10
- LPC
- MSL
- Mythryl
- Nemerle - combines C# and ML features, provides syntax extension capabilities
- PCASTL
- Perl
- PHP
- Pico
- Pike
- Poses++ (language of the simulation system with the same name)
- ppC++
- R
- S-Lang
- Scala
- sed
- Suneido
- SuperCollider
- TorqueScript
- UnrealScript
- Windows PowerShell (Microsoft .NET-based CLI)
- Yorick
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