Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram...
by jcranmer on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @07:21PM
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As I would use the terminology, the C family of languages generally corresponds to languages that follow C's general syntactic rules, such as how you represent operators (particularly = is assignment and == is equality), curly braces for blocks, and to lesser degrees, making distinction between statement/expression, or having types precede variable names.
"C-like", by contrast, is a language whose semantics follow closely to C, and in particular, the C-with-extensions languages like C++ or Objective-C are usually going to fall into this category.
"C-like", by contrast, is a language whose semantics follow closely to C, and in particular, the C-with-extensions languages like C++ or Objective-C are usually going to fall into this category.