• Data source: https://www.wikidata.org/
• Graphic source: https://programminglanguages.info/influence-ranking/
• Tools: wikidata-dl, D3.js, Inkscape

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

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?

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

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

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

There's also a language called Semicolon...

Great job! The 'R programming language' is not on here?

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

Thank you! According to Wikidata, R has only influenced Julia, see https://programminglanguages.info/language/r/

As stated in the graphic, the data is not complete. If you know about other influenced languages you can add them on Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206904

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?

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.

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

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

Yes, that makes sense.

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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.

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

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.

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

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There is objective-c and no swift ? Seems weird to me

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

At the moment Wikidata lists 4 languages influenced by Swift, see https://programminglanguages.info/language/swift/

It's a fairly new language, also data might be missing.

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

For the most part it is based on Wikipedia.