Many of these 70 languages were developmentally influenced by C due to its success and ubiquity.
The family also includes predecessors that influenced C's design such as BCPL.
Notable programming sources use terms like C-style, C-like, a dialect of C, having C-like syntax.
The term curly bracket programming language denotes a language that shares C's block syntax.
[1][2] C-family languages have features like: C-family languages span multiple programming paradigms, conceptual models, and run-time environments.