Both languages (being bastard children of C) often run into exactly the same problems, where the syntax doesn't differ greatly. If you e.g. are accustomed to ha

Both languages (being bastard children of C) often run into exactly the same problems, where the syntax doesn't differ greatly. If you e.g. are accustomed to having indentation without tabs, margins within function calls or prefer non-tabular variable declarations, you can have that in C, Perl, Pike, Java, etc..