Talk:List of C-family programming languages

This article was nominated for deletion. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination:

Soft keep, 4 December 2015, see discussion.
keep, 14 April 2015, see discussion.

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Removed "factual accuracy disputed" tag, archived previous discussions

I have archived the previous discussions, most of which were pre-2020 and referred to outdated versions of the page. For instance, there were many complaints about the inclusion of Python, which is no longer featured.

One of these discussions was a deletion nomination discussion that happened in July 2015, in between the other two deletion nominations. It was clearly an archival mistake that it was not grouped with either the January or the December discussion, and I'm not going to figure out which.

Many complaints were about the page lacking a clear inclusion criterion for languages in this list. I have edited the page to make it clear that the inclusion criterion is what notable sources say. Yes, this is not an "objective" criterion, and some people disliked this, but neither is Wikipedia-notability in general. Just like "Wikipedia notability" is the standard that Wikipedia in general de facto follows, notable sources is the de facto standard of this article: all the citations in it are given to directly support the assertion that the related languages are C-like, or have C-like syntax, etc. Establishing a different criterion would require rewriting the article and citations, so that if you want a different criterion for inclusion, then you effectively want an entirely different article, either by starting a new one or by entirely overhauling this one. It happens that no notable sources have such a thing as an objective criterion for a language being C-like, so I don't expect any Wikipedia effort to establish one to be anything other than original research.

I removed an issue tag about the factual accuracy of the article being disputed, since all such accuracy complaints here in the talk page were about inclusions of languages that were either already removed from the article, or already supported by notable sources, whereas the complaints themselves had no citations. I have kept a tag regarding the need for more citations in this article, since we should probably have every language be cited, and I have kept some uncited languages which I did not personally check. I have removed the languages which I did check and could not support with notable sources. Thiagovscoelho (talk) 17:16, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The earth is. warming because of

not c+c but closer revolution 164.68.185.119 (talk) 21:05, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kotlin?

Where's Kotlin? -GogoLion (talk) 08:32, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

JavaScript – a C-family language?

I do not consider JavaScript as a typical C-family language, even though it shares some syntactic similarities with C. I think that JavaScript should be removed from the list in the article and any other Phyton-like language. The table should include only those languages that were directly derived from or heavily influenced by C, such as C++, C#, and Objective-C. 81.217.68.78 (talk) 10:50, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]