List of C-family programming languages
The C-family programming languages share significant features of the C programming language. Many of these 70 languages were developmentally influenced by C due to its success and ubiquity. The family also includes predecessors that influenced C's design such as BCPL.
Notable programming sources use terms like C-style, C-like, a dialect of C, having C-like syntax. The term curly bracket programming language denotes a language that shares C's block syntax.
C-family languages have features like:
- Code block delimited by curly braces (
{}), a.k.a. braces, a.k.a. curly brackets
- Parameter list delimited by parentheses (
())
- Infix notation for arithmetical and logical expressions
C-family languages span multiple programming paradigms, conceptual models, and run-time environments.