The '''curly brace family''' of [[programming language]]s includes [[C programming language|C]], [[C Plus Plus|C++]], [[C Sharp programming language|C#]], [[D programming language|D]], [[Java programming language|Java]], [[JavaScript]], [[AWK]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]], [[C SharpPico programming language|C#Pico]], [[Pico programming languagePike_programming_language|PicoPike]], and others. The name derives from the common [[syntax]] of the languages, where blocks of statements are enclosed in [[bracket#Brackets in computing|curly braces]]. For example (using [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]]/[[Eric Allman|Allman]] [[indent style]], one of many stylistic ways to format a program):
