Maybe they are using some arcane programming tool from the 80s...
'{}' has the advantage that it expresses structure in a single line - copy a block of code from one place to another and your editor can throw it almost anywhere and the structure is preserved...
Modern day text editors all preserve indent wonderfully and can indent/outdent as a matter of course...but to some troll insisting on using ed or notepad or Microsoft Word I can see the difficulty.
'{}' has the advantage that it expresses structure in a single line - copy a block of code from one place to another and your editor can throw it almost anywhere and the structure is preserved...
Modern day text editors all preserve indent wonderfully and can indent/outdent as a matter of course...but to some troll insisting on using ed or notepad or Microsoft Word I can see the difficulty.