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C syntax? We clearly haven't read the same homepage.

• hga 17y ago
  Err, vs. Lisp/s-expression syntax. Most of the post-70s children of Algol have adopted "C syntax" as I refer to it, although I'll agree this language is some distance from that, e.g. it doesn't suffer from "cancer of the semicolon". But it is strongly C/C++ influenced at the very least.
  • nddrylliog 17y ago
    Oh, I see what you mean now. Calling everything that is not S-expression a C syntax is pretty far-fetched though =)
    • hga 17y ago
      Well, there are also: Algol syntaxes, e.g. wordy ones with begin end instead of { and }. It introduced cancer of the semi-colon and := and quite a few languages followed it, most notably Ada and Pascal and its derivatives. C is obviously an optimization of it, but it also adds its distinct features. There's the postfix Forth family including Postscript and Factor. Python's use of significant white space deserves mention. I could go back further to BASIC and its line numbers, FORTRAN IV with its column significant spacing (e.g. the statement continuation column), but you get the idea....