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nesC (network embedded systems C) is a component-based, event-driven programming language used to build applications for the TinyOS platform. TinyOS is an operating environment designed to run on embedded devices used in distributed wireless sensor networks. nesC is built as an extension to the C programming language with components "wired" together to run applications on TinyOS.

ColdFusion is a tag-based programming language that was developed by the Jeremy Allaire in 1995 to make development of CGI scripts easier and faster, CFML pre-dates ASP and PHP. It has matured over the last 14 years to include many interfaces with other languages and environments.

ColdFusion is the hot way to create dynamic webpages that link to just about any database. ColdFusion is a programming language based on standard HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) that is used to write dynamic webpages. It lets you create pages on the fly that differ depending on user input, database lookups, time of day or whatever other criteria you dream up! ColdFusion pages consist of standard HTML tags such as <FONT SIZE=.+2.>, together with CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) tags such as <CFQUERY>, <CFIF> and <CFLOOP>. ColdFusion was introduced by Allaire in 1996, acquired by Macromedia in a merger in April 2001, and acquired by Adobe in December 2005. It is currently in version 7.0.1, but the next version of the product (codenamed Scorpio) is already in development.

As with any of todays ideas which we often take for granted, there is usually a long history behind them which can span thousands of years. Programming Languages are different only in that they were dependent on the development of todays computers, which was a process that started about 2000 years ago. Since the development of the transistor in the early 50's, both the computers and the programming languages written to work with them have expanded many times over, often spawning new languages off of older, outdated ones.

The MOO programming language is a relatively simple programming language used to support the MOO Server. It is dynamically typed and uses a prototype-based object-oriented system, with syntax roughly derived from the Algol school of programming languages.

C&#969; (pronounced "cee omega"; usually written "Cw" or "Comega") is a free extension to the C# programming language, developed by the WebData team in Microsoft SQL Server in collaboration with Microsoft Research in the UK and Redmond. It was formerly known as the codenames "X#" (X Sharp) and "Xen". It was renamed C&#969; after Polyphonic C#, another research language based on Join calculus, was integrated into it.

The Cyclone programming language is intended to be a safe dialect of the C language. Cyclone is designed to avoid buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities that are endemic in C programs, without losing the power and convenience of C as a tool for system programming.

Cilk is a general-purpose programming language designed for multithreaded parallel computing. The commercial instantiation is Intel Cilk Plus.

The languages in this article are languages related to or derived from the C programming language. Broadly speaking, C-family languages are those that use C-like block syntax (including curly braces to begin and end the block). The family spreads out over several programming paradigms, including procedural programming, Object-oriented programming, functional programming, and generic programming, as well as having both native code and virtual machine runtime environments.

XMTC (for explicit multi-threading C) is a shared-memory parallel programming language. It is an extension of the C programming language which strives to enable easy PRAM-like programming based on the explicit multi-threading paradigm. It is developed as part of the XMT PRAM-On-Chip vision by a research team at the University of Maryland, College Park, led by Dr. Uzi Vishkin.