List of C-family programming languages
Due to the success of the C programming language and some of its derivatives, C-family programming languages span a large variety of programming paradigms, conceptual models, and run-time environments.

List of C-family programming languages

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Table Section Text: Due to the success of the C programming language and some of its derivatives, C-family programming languages span a large variety of programming paradigms, conceptual models, and run-time environments.

Language	Year started	Created by (at)	Comments	References

E	1997	Mark S. Miller, Dan Bornstein (Electric Communities)	Designed with secure computing in mind, accomplished chiefly by strict adherence to the object-oriented computing model.

C	1969-1973	Dennis Ritchie (Bell Labs)	Was an enhancement of Ken Thompson's B language.

Ratfor	1974	Brian Kernighan (Bell Labs)	A hybrid of C and Fortran, implemented as a preprocessor for environments without easy access to C compilers.

C shell/tcsh	late 1970s	Bill Joy (UC Berkeley)	Scripting language and standard Unix shell.

C++	1979	Bjarne Stroustrup (Bell Labs)	Named as "C with Classes" and renamed C++ in 1983; it began as a reimplementation of static object orientation in the tradition of Simula 67, and through standardization and wide use has grown to encompass generic programming as well as its original object-oriented roots.

AMPL	1985	Robert Fourer, David Gay and Brian Kernighan (Bell Labs)	It is an algebraic modeling language with elements of a scripting language.

Objective-C	1986	Brad Cox and Tom Love	It is an object-oriented dynamic language based heavily on Smalltalk. A loosely defined de facto standard library by the original developers has now largely been displaced by variations on the OpenStep FoundationKit.

C*	1987	Thinking Machines	object-oriented, data-parallel superset of ANSI C

Perl	1988	Larry Wall	Scripting language used extensively for system administration, text processing, and web server tasks.

Java	1991	James Gosling (Sun Microsystems)	Created as Oak, and released to the public in 1995. It is an OODL based inspired heavily by Objective-C, though with a syntax based somewhat on C++.

S-Lang	1991	John E. Davis	A library with a powerful interpreter that provides facilities required by interactive applications such as display/screen management, keyboard input, keymaps, etc.

SAC	1994	(Germany)	Development spread to several institutions in Germany, Canada, and the UK. Functional language with C syntax.

Alef	1995	Phil Winterbottom (Bell Labs)	Created for systems programming on the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system; it was published in 1995 but eventually abandoned.

Limbo	1995	Limbo succeeded Alef and is used in Inferno as Alef was used in Plan9.

PHP	1995	Rasmus Lerdorf	Widely used as a server-side HTML scripting language. C-like syntax.

ECMAscript	1995	Brendan Eich (Netscape)	Created as Mocha and LiveScript, announced in 1995, shipped the next year as JavaScript. Primarily a scripting language used in Web page development as well as numerous application environments such as Adobe Flash and QtScript.

C--	1997	Simon Peyton Jones, Norman Ramsey	generated mainly by compilers for very high-level languages

C#	1999	Anders Hejlsberg (Microsoft)	Created under the name "Cool", it is syntactically very similar to Java, though with a Smalltalk-like unified type system.

Ch	2001	Harry Cheng	A C/C++ scripting language with extensions for shell programming and numerical computing.

D	2001	Walter Bright (Digital Mars)	Based on C++, but with an incompatible syntax having traits from other C-like languages like Java and C#.

eC	2004	Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis (Ecere)	A super-set of C adding object-oriented features (inspired by C++), properties, dynamic modules and reflection developed as part of the Ecere SDK project, an open-source cross-platform SDK.

Cyclone	2001	Greg Morrisett (AT&T Labs)	Intended to be a safe dialect of the C language. It is designed to avoid buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities that are endemic in C programs, without losing the power and convenience of C as a tool for system programming.

LSL	2003	?	Created for the Second Life virtual world by Linden Lab.

Squirrel	2003	Alberto Demichelis	A light-weight scripting language

Go	2007	Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Robert Griesemer (Google)	Released to public in 2009, it is a concurrent language with fast compilations, Java-like syntax, but no object-oriented features and strong typing.

OpenCL C	2009	Apple, Khronos Group	OpenCL specifies a modified subset of the C programming language for writing programs to run on various compute devices (e.g. GPUs, DSPs)

C0	2010	Rob Arnold (CMU)	A safe subset of C with checked pointers and bounds-checked arrays. Created for CMU introductory computer courses.

Swift	2014	Chris Lattner (Apple)	Swift can import any C library, optionally annotating C headers to map C types to Swift objects and import libraries as Swift modules.

AWK	1977	Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger & Brian Kernighan (Bell Labs)	Designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool.

BitC	2006	Johns Hopkins University	Aims to support formal program verification.

LPC	1995	Lars Pensjö	Developed originally to facilitate MUD building on LPMuds. Though designed for game development, its flexibility has led to it being used for a variety of purposes.

Pike	1994	Fredrik Hübinette	An interpreted, general-purpose, high-level, cross-platform, dynamic programming language, with a syntax similar to that of C.

Seed7	2005	Thomas Mertes	An extensible general-purpose programming language.

Processing	2001	Casey Reas, Benjamin Fry	An open source programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities.

Split-C	1993	?	A parallel extension of the C programming language.

Unified Parallel C	2003	?	An extension of the C programming language designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines.

Cilk	1994	MIT Laboratory for Computer Science	General-purpose programming language designed for multithreaded parallel computing.

Chapel	2009	Cray Inc.	Aims to improve the programmability of parallel computers in general and the Cray Cascade system in particular.

Fortress	2006	Sun Labs	An experimental programming language for high-performance computing, created by Sun Microsystems with funding from DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems project.

Agora	1993	?	A reflective, prototype-based, object-oriented programming language that is based exclusively on message passing and not delegation.

BCPL	1966	Martin Richards	A procedural, imperative, and structured computer programming language.

B	1969	Ken Thompson	Designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine independent applications, such as system and language software.

Nim	2008	Andreas Rumpf	An imperative, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language.

Nemerle	2003	Andreas Rumpf	A general-purpose high-level statically typed programming language designed for platforms using the Common Language Infrastructure (.NET/Mono).

ApeScript	?	?	An interpreted procedural dynamic-typed language.

Amiga E	1993	Wouter van Oortmerssen	A combination of many features from a number of languages, but follows the original C programming language most closely in terms of basic concepts.

Lite-C	2007	Atari Inc	A programming language for multimedia applications and personal computer games, using a syntax subset of the C language with some elements of the C++ language.

Newsqueak	early 1980s	Rob Pike	A concurrent programming language for writing application software with interactive graphical user interfaces. Newsqueak's syntax and semantics are influenced by the C language, but its approach to concurrency was inspired by CSP.

Not eXactly C (NXC)	2006	John Hansen	A high-level programming language for the Lego Mindstorms NXT. NXC, which is short for Not eXactly C, is based on Next Byte Codes, an assembly language.

Not Quite C (NQC)	~1998	David Baum	An embedded systems programming language, application programming interface (API), and native bytecode compiler toolkit for the Lego Mindstorms RCX platform, Cybermaster and LEGO Spybotics systems.

Oak	1991	James Gosling (Sun Microsystems)	A programming language created initially for Sun Microsystems set-top box project. The language later evolved to become Java.

PROMAL	1985	Systems Management Associates	A C-like programming language for MS-DOS, Commodore 64, and Apple II.

Handel-C	1996	Oxford University Computing Laboratory	A high-level programming language which targets low-level hardware, most commonly used in the programming of FPGAs. It is a rich subset of C.

Dart	2013	Lars Bak and Kasper Lund (Google)	A class-based, single inheritance, object-oriented language with C-style syntax.

CINT	1997-1999?	Masaharu Goto	An interpreted version of C/C++, much in the way BeanShell is an interpreted version of Java.

Cg	2002	Nvidia	Based on the C programming language and although they share the same syntax, some features of C were modified and new data types were added to make Cg more suitable for programming graphics processing units.

R	1993	Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman	A programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

Hack	2014	Julien Verlaguet, Alok Menghrajani, Drew Paroski (Facebook)	A programming language for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM).

Charm	1996	?	An object oriented computer programming language with similarities to the RTL/2, Pascal and C languages in addition to containing some unique features of its own.

Claire	1994	Yves Caseau	A high-level functional and object-oriented programming language with rule processing abilities.

Noop	2009	Google	Attempts to blend the best features of "old" and "new" languages, while syntactically encouraging good programming practice.

Neko	2005	Nicolas Cannasse (Motion-Twin)	A high-level dynamically typed programming language

Axum	2009	Microsoft	A domain specific concurrent programming language, based on the Actor model.

Umple	2008	University of Ottawa	A language for both object-oriented programming and modeling with class diagrams and state diagrams.

TOM (object-oriented programming language)	1990s	?	An object-oriented programming language that built on the lessons learned from Objective-C.

Telescript	1990	Marc Porat	An object-oriented programming language.

Fantom	2005	Brian Frank and Andy Frank	An object-oriented, functional, actor concurrent with a null-able aware type system emphasizing pragmatism in building enterprise systems running on top of the JVM or the CLR or JavaScript.

nesC	nesC (pronounced "NES-see") is an extension to the C programming language designed to embody the structuring concepts and execution model of TinyOS.

HolyC	2005	Terry A. Davis	A dialect of C for Terry's own operating system TempleOS. Most notable changes are the argument passing, variable type naming (U8 instead of unsigned char, I32 instead of int and so on), code structure ("There is no main() function.

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In 1999, Anders Hejlsberg created C Sharp (programming language) called Cool.

final_sentence: In 1999, Anders Hejlsberg created C Sharp (programming language) called Cool.