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> C's own descendants, by which I mainly mean C++, may very well be even livelier in the next few years. Aside from languages that are directly descended from C, (particularly C++ but also some others) [...]

Does anyone know what the other languages descended from C they might have been referring to circa 1993?

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Earlier than or in 1993:

- C++: 1979-

- Objective C: 1984

- Split-C: 1993

Later than 1993:

- C--: 1997

- C#: 2000

- D: 2001

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-family_programming_l... (but this list goes a bit too far IMHO)

There was also this extension of C called Concurrent C, which has its own book called The Concurrent C Programming Language, originally published in 1989. I don't see it on the Wikipedia page, which is why I'm saying it here.

I would consider Rust to be informed enough by C, that it can be considered a descendent—as much as D, and more so than C# (which is more of a Java-descendent; and while Java's syntax is based on C, that's where it ends).

C# was also at least somewhat informed by Delphi, the Object Pascal variant the same architect created just prior to MS luring him away from Borland.

awk: 1977

csh: 1978

perl: 1987

Java: 1995

JavaScript: 1995

C-- is more a compiler intermediate/back-end language, not intended to be written by people

I would add PHP to the list as well

In what sense is perl descended from C?

In the multiple inheritance sense, but I wouldn't call it a descendant either. Larry "simply" scrounged around in '87 and looked at everything he could to put into his awk-but-better tool. In his own words C was a big part of that, with BCPL in the back of his mind.

Curly bracket blocks, much of the statement syntax, the operator hierarchy, many of the standard functions.

Then there's Cyclone, from 2001 to 2006, which intended to be a systems programming language that could be extensively checked for safety at compile time.

Rust has taken over its basic concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_%28programming_languag...

Objective-C?

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