[alexthehurst]

This seems like a rather large claim that would benefit from some kind of supporting argument.

[kragen]

c-descended languages include c++, java, and c#

awk-descended languages include perl, tcl, js, python and lua

it's a close race but if i had to pick i'd say the second group is more influential

[shawn_w]

Most implementations of that second group of languages are written in C, and run on operating systems written in C. It's really no contest that C has had far more of an influence on computing. So much software would not exist, or not in the forms we recognize, without it.

[esafak]

Python influenced by AWK? Never heard that before, and Wikipedia does not list awk among python's numerous influences, either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)