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What other language families are there, apart from C and ML languages? Lisp, maybe? Maybe dataflow or logic programming?


Algol family, which C definitely isn't part of.

It is composed by Mesa, Cedar, Modula-2, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Oberon-07, Ada, Spark, ParaSail, ...


If you zoom out far enough, few (for example, from a few miles away with my eyes almost closed, I would put Algol and C in the same family: procedural and with block scoping).

There are quite a few distinctly other languages, though. To name a few: APL, COBOL, Forth, sed, Snobol.


Pascal?


This is a very interesting and complex question. CTM provides some answers, summarized in http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf




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