The CeeLanguage has been around a long time and has been hugely successful. As a result, many subsequent ProgrammingLanguages have tried to ride on C's coattails by adopting its basic syntax, hoping to ease adoption by the legions of existing C programmers. There has been debate about whether ItsTimeToDumpCeeSyntax or ItsNotTimeToDumpCeeSyntax.
Supersets of C:
Almost the entire syntax: Expression syntax (such as '&' for LogicalAnd, '^' for XOR, << for shift, etc.)