Mpot:
You're probably refering to this reference:
http://www.mirc.com/khaled/faq.html
Question: How did you write the scripting language?
Answer: I had no experience with writing compilers or parsers when I first started working on mIRC. The scripting language grew organically, it wasn't designed. Users provided much input and over time the language became relatively organized and stable, though it still has some quirks. I would say that the language resembles C more than anything else.
That was said a long time ago though, and probably only on the basis of using { } to denote blocks of code rather than begin/end's. C was one of the first languages to do this, which is why the syntax is now known as "C style syntax". However, mIRC does *not* have a C style syntax; the brackets are practically the only similarity to C there is. The rest is probably more common to a weird mixture of Tcl, VB and batch scripting than C.
That said, that's only the
objective answer to what mIRC is like, not what it was influenced by or based on. For that, we can only take Khaled's direct words, and if he implies that it's a lot like C, then that's probably what was going through his mind when creating it, and therefore the influence of the language.
