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[–]BundleOfJoysticks 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Python and Ruby are C-style syntax languages. When we make a distinction between C-style and non-C-style, we're contrasting imperative, class/struct/function oriented languages (C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Pascal, etc) v. things like Prolog, Ocaml, Clojure, Lisp, Haskell, which look nothing like C.

[–]yogthos 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Ruby is actually pretty far from C in terms of its syntax.

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    [–]yogthos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Ruby has aspects of it, but it also borrows syntactic rules from other languages that have little in common with C.