[TUHS] Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C

John Levine via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Thu May 21 08:04:14 AEST 2026


It appears that Thalia Archibald via TUHS <thalia at archibald.dev> said:
>I was asked today whether the Teletype Model 33 was really used for C
>development, because it lacks the curly braces required, and wrote a post about
>it.
>    https://thalia.dev/blog/unix-braces/

Nice post but I can tell you from experience that Model 37 Teletypes were quite
rare outside the Bell companies.  I think I saw one once.  Other than that we all
used the Model 33 because it was cheap and reliable and we typed \( \) and dealt
with it.

R's,
John


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