With all the Olympic Curling coverage we’ve had in the past few weeks you have undoubtedly become confused on the difference between Curling the sport and CURL the highly useful PHP library.  Lord knows I have!  Here is a brief explanation of both that’ll hopefully clear things up for you.

Curling (the sport):

Curling is a team sport in which stones are slid across a sheet of carefully prepared ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard.
Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished blue hone granite stones across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice.[1] Each team has eight stones. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game, points being scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones. A game may consist of ten or eight ends.

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