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| From | glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: C struct syntax allowance by usage |
| Date | 2015-10-20 02:36 +0000 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <n049bp$862$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink) |
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> On 19/10/15 13:09, Bartc wrote:
>> On 19/10/2015 11:38, David Brown wrote:
(snip)
>>> The only thing "C-derived" about Perl is that it uses {} for grouping.
>> Loads of languages are based around C-like syntax (which is what I
>> mostly don't like about C!)
>> It's not just {,} braces, but things such as parentheses around
>> conditionals, semicolons, and even exact copies of C's 'for' statement.
>> I think Perl has all this as well.
Well, there are languages that don't have ( ) for the IF statement,
but instead use THEN to separate the logical value from the statement
to execute.
I believe that a few C features can be traced back to PL/I, though not
so many of them.
> That's just syntax details. When making a new language, you need some
> syntax - if it is convenient, you borrow from an existing language as it
> might save you effort in making parsers, or syntax highlighting, or
> lower the learning curve for people who are already used to the syntax.
> But that doesn't mean the language is a C (or whatever) derivative -
> any more than Esperanto is a Finish derivative just because they share
> mostly the same alphabet.
Yes, but languages can have multiple inheritance.
It is well known that PL/I includes features from Fortran, COBOL,
and Algol.
IBM was hoping not to have to write separate compilers, but instead
get everyone to use one language.
Some features are common enough that you can't really say where they
came from, but in many cases there were languages used by the original
authors, and ideas came from those.
And even when a feature is derived from another language, the new syntax
can be completely different from the old.
I don't know that C struct came from PL/I structures, and the syntax
differences make it less obvious, but I suspect so.
PL/I was the usual language used with Multics, the system that unix was
written to avoid.
> In the case of Perl, you have an interpreted high-level language
> targeted at scripting, web applications, and string manipulation. It is
> not a derivative of a general purpose low-level systems language with an
> emphasis on efficient performance.
I suspect using similar syntax was intentional, even when the meaning
for the syntax might be different.
-- glen
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