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Oh, I see what you mean now. Calling everything that is not S-expression a C syntax is pretty far-fetched though =)
by 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 agoWell, 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....