On: Streem – a new programming language from Matz

[vlucas]

Interesting that he chose a C-like syntax after going the complete opposite direction with Ruby.

[coldtea → vlucas]

Huh? Ruby also has a C-like (algol derived) syntax.

The replacement of "}" with "end" etc, is a trivial replacement, not a different type of syntax.

Lisp, Prolog, etc, would be a non-C syntax.

[stormbrew → coldtea]

Obviously you can flatten this inheritance tree any way you like, but while all C-likes are obviously algol-likes I do think it's useful to consider C-like a distinct branch within that.

That said I think you probably want more than just curly braces to define C-like even then.