[lor_louis]

To be fair, I'd rather type BEGIN instead of <<? Or whatever the trigraph is supposed to be. We tend to forget that a lot of computers didn't have the keys to type "mathematical" symbols.

[WalterBright]

EBCDIC was already dead in the 1980s. Nobody ever used the trigraphs except for one company that hung on for years until even the C++ community decided enough was enough and dumped them.

Besides, what people wrote was:

    #define BEGIN {

not:

    #define BEGIN <<?