If forwards compatibility is not accounted for, you could almost consider C, C++, Java and C# as the same language. There was a natural progression of syntax a

If forwards compatibility is not accounted for, you could almost consider C, C++, Java and C# as the same language. There was a natural progression of syntax and features with very little that happened disruptively in the syntaxes in moving from one to the next (biggest jump, amusingly, was the one that was forwards compatible -- from C to C++).