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Line 155: * [[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. Basic is one of the first modern languages to not mandate parentheses around subroutine calls. * [[C (programming 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). * [[Fortran]]'s continued performance lead over C and C++ for numerical-intensive applications helped identify which language constructs would prevent useful optimizations.

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