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ajmsnr t1_ix80jvh wrote

I wonder how Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) compared to the overall Perl language factors into this assessment.

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yaph OP t1_ix8203r wrote

Good point! That that level of detail requires a lot of research I guess.

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MugOfButtSweat t1_ix80n16 wrote

Interesting, go is a relatively new language correct? Would be interesting to watch its rise if any.

Also isnt Haskell the language they based cardano on?

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yaph OP t1_ix81sg3 wrote

Yes, Go was released in 2009. Never heard of cardano.

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disharmony-hellride t1_ix85hc4 wrote

North American organic searches for C have dropped 40% over the last year. R, Python, Javascript, still going strong. Source: I SEO for programming.

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Zephos65 t1_ix8679w wrote

There are some things about this I don't quite get. Like ML is a predecessor to haskell, so anything haskell inspired must also be inspired by ML no?

And like anything that was inspired by C++ or Java must also be inspired by C, right?

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yaph OP t1_ix88oer wrote

I wouldn't say that's necessarily the case. For example: language X uses one feature of C. Language Y uses one feature of language X, but not the one that comes from C, so language Y would be influenced by X but not by C.

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Zephos65 t1_ix8988o wrote

I suppose. I think what I am thinking of is that the C family has a very particular look. How functions are defined, scoping, variable declaration... all looks very very similar in C, C++, Java, C#

Python has a very distinct "look" to it.

ML family (including Haskell, OCaml, F#) all looks pretty similar

Etc. I think Rust is a good example of what you are saying. It steals a lot of the greatest ideas from a lot of languages, but I think of language families as having the same sort of style / feel

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yaph OP t1_ix8abvx wrote

Yes, that makes sense.

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v4ss42 t1_ix8a7bq wrote

Agreed. Arguably ALGOL should be at the top, because C (and by extension, all of its “influencees”) was derived from ALGOL.

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KingDuderhino t1_ixc3bzv wrote

I think it only counts direct influences, otherwise the early languages because otherwise the early programming languages would be on top of the list.

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Alfalfa-Similar t1_ix8c00t wrote

I remember popping in a BASIC cartridge into my dads Atarii 800xl and then learning to code from the manual when I was 6. I remember using PLOT x,x and hundreds of lines to draw a Zebra lol.

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yaph OP t1_ix8yisf wrote

My brother and I typed the code for a game from a magazine when we were kids. We pretty much deleted it right after we could finally run it without syntax error, because it sucked. Hours and hours of work gone in a second. Nonetheless, we both ended up working as programmers later in life.

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Alfalfa-Similar t1_ix97zhl wrote

I did the same out of a basic dos manual. Cant remember the game but I was so disappointed also.

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TCritic t1_ix81zd7 wrote

Idk I think Whitespace has been influencing/implemented in nearly every language since before the language was even a language and even after the language reclassified from a language to an esoteric language. Truly a language among languages

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yaph OP t1_ix84b9u wrote

There's also a language called Semicolon...

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jcinterrante t1_ix8wpra wrote

I feel like Fortran should really be at the top of this, because it’s the common ancestor of so many of these

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Decent-Ad-8335 t1_ixgog7v wrote

It’s likely not a reliable indicator though, because they probably got this data in a similar way to how the TIOBE index works.

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yaph OP t1_ixhwlsu wrote

For the most part it is based on Wikipedia.

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