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== Statements and blocks ==
The '''curly brace family''' of [[programming language]]s includes [[C programming language|C]], [[C Plus Plus|C++]]; [[AWK]], [[Coyote]], [[Cyclone programming language|Cyclone]], [[C Sharp|C#]], [[D programming language|D]], [[ECMAScript]] (a.k.a. [[JavaScript]], [[JScript]]), [[Frink]], [[Java programming language|Java]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]], [[Pico programming language|Pico]], [[Pike_programming_language|Pike]], and others.
The name "curly brace" 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):
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