Comment by lucketone
15 hours ago
I known for very long time that c (and co) inherited the syntax from algol.
But only after long time I tried to check what Algol actually looked like. To my surprise, Algol does not look anything like C to me.
I would be quite interested in the expanded version of “C has inherited syntax from Algol”
Edit: apparently the inheritance from Algol is a formula: lexical scoping + value returning functions (expression based) - parenthesitis. Only last item is about visual part of the syntax.
Algol alternatives were: cobol, fortan, lisp, apl.
The use of curly braces for delimiting blocks of code actually comes from BCPL.
Of course, C also inherited syntax from Algol, but so did most languages.