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* [[Ada language|Ada]] inspired some of large-scale program support, exception handling, tasking, and supportability aspects.

* [[Basic programming language|Basic]], notably in the more modern variants that dispense of line numbers and support structured programming, showed how simple the syntax of a programming language could be. For instance, Basic remainsis one of the onlyfirst modern languages to not mandate parentheses around subroutine calls.

* [[C language|C]] was used as the standard to expect in terms of runtime and machine-level support. XL will not require a virtual machine to run.

* [[C++]] and the [[Standard template library]] demonstrated the need for good support of generic types, including implicit instantiation of generics (which Ada lacks).