Why do so many languages base their syntax around C?

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Many programming languages base their syntax around C programming language because it was very close to machine code and thus easy to compile and execute the program. Also since C was one of the first programming languages to be introduced many developers tried to implement their ideas of a new programming...
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Many programming languages base their syntax around C programming language because it was very close to machine code and thus easy to compile andexecute the program. Also since C was one of the first programming languages to be introduced many developers tried to implement their ideas of a new programming language faster by copying the syntax of C language. read less
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