From: Claus Spitzer <DocBoobenstein@...>
Date: 2004-05-02T15:12:21+09:00
Subject: Re: {} VS do/end styles

> >  * do/end is *easier* to type than {} in terms of wear and tear on
> >    my poor fingers
> 
> 
> Ok, well how 'bout this: braces use fewer characters, so you save disk
> space.
> 

Whether do/end is easier to type than {} is rather subjective... from
personal experience, I tend towards {} because I can type {} in an
easy stroke (hold down shift, roll fingers over { and }), and I can
then fill in. But I digress - I'm just talking of personal experience.

To tackle the answer from a different angle - my guess is that
programmers who come from a C/Java/Perl environment would lean towards
{}, and programmers from a shell scripting environment may tend
towards do/end, simply because of habit.