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Re:Google Squared is Live by aston on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @04:07PM (#640313)
Re:Google Squared is Live by Adlai on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @10:47PM (#640870)
In my square for programming languages, SNOBOL and COBOL both made the list (in that order, too -- I've never even heard of SNOBOL!), but none of the following appear: (in no particular order...)

C, C++, C#, Common Lisp, Java, Ruby, Smalltalk, x86

Heh, I listed those in alphabetical order without even planning to...

Re:Google Squared is Live by Emore on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @04:33PM (#640357)
For me it's 1. Pascal, 2. Fortran, 3. Scheme. Guess the order is somehow scrambled, which would explain that Yahoo turns out number 1 for "search engines" :)
Re:Google Squared is Live by RossM on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @05:28PM (#640468)
Funny how it partially confuses Pascal with the real thing, but still records its influences.
Re:Google Squared is Live by snprbob86 on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @08:18PM (#640721)
Try adding these columns: Paradigm, Typing Discipline, Designed By, Major Implementations

Impressive.

Re:Google Squared is Live by CUViper on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @08:54PM (#640757)
Not really -- those are all categories in the Wikipedia sidebar. The data is already structured for easy consumption.

Try something like a "Version" column and it starts to break down. It makes decent guesses overall, but they're not current (e.g. Python says 2.4, where 2.6.2 or 3.0.1 would be better).