Talk:Generational list of programming languages: Difference between revisions

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An interesting idea, but I agree a tree is suspect-- I think you can so a tree of principal influences and pointers to other. But where is Smalltalk? Where is Prolog? RPL? If we have VBScript, why not Javascript. What about Perl, PHP. Isn't SQL a language, other 4GLs. What about shell scripts- TeX- assemblers?

There are languages that, arguably, are created specifically in an attempt to "merge" the outstanding characteristics of two other languages. [[J programming language|J]] is a good example: if one didn't knew that [[APL]] was also created by [[Iverson]], it would be hard to say whether J is influenced more by APL than [[Backus]]'s FP/FL or viceversa. I ended up listing it under both and making a referential note. Sure enough, if this technique were to be missused , the Generational list would end up being a Generational mesh ;-) --Danakil

== Concurrent Turing ==