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yaph OP t1_ix88oer wrote

Reply to comment by Zephos65 in Top 50 Programming Languages Ranked by the Number of Influenced Languages [OC] by yaph

I wouldn't say that's necessarily the case. For example: language X uses one feature of C. Language Y uses one feature of language X, but not the one that comes from C, so language Y would be influenced by X but not by C.

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Zephos65 t1_ix8988o wrote

I suppose. I think what I am thinking of is that the C family has a very particular look. How functions are defined, scoping, variable declaration... all looks very very similar in C, C++, Java, C#

Python has a very distinct "look" to it.

ML family (including Haskell, OCaml, F#) all looks pretty similar

Etc. I think Rust is a good example of what you are saying. It steals a lot of the greatest ideas from a lot of languages, but I think of language families as having the same sort of style / feel

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yaph OP t1_ix8abvx wrote

Yes, that makes sense.

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