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Re:Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other A... by dkhenry on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @04:00PM (#4195899)
That is a very poorly laid out map. This one is much better indexed by time

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/tongues....

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Re:Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other A... by Ralith on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @04:37PM (#4196066)
That's not a very good map either--there's no connection between ML and Haskell, for starters.
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Re:Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other A... by quarterto on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @05:09PM (#4196210)
Or Self and JavaScript. And it calls Ruby a "hardware description language". I need to stop reading it, it's making me angry.
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Re:Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other A... by michaelcampbell on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @05:32PM (#4200886)
It is. It's just the wrong one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(hardware_description_lang...

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