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C is certainly a family of languages: K&R "Classic" C, GNU C, ISO {C90, C99, C11}, MS Visual C, Borland Turbo C, ... interpreters like EiC. There are many C toolchains from all sorts of embedded vendors: like for Microchip's PIC, Atmel AVR.

C++ is in the C family; many C programs run as C++ with only small modifications and some cases no modifications at all.

Objective C is another C family member.

I maintain a fairly large FOSS project in such a way that although it is written in C, you can configure to use a C++ compiler; effectively, C++ is a target platform to which the code is portable. It's just another C dialect.




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