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Way back when, I knocked up a graph of this:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/EveryLanguageFixesSomething.ht...

There is also an enhanced version that brought it a little further up to date. Problem is, people keep insisting that it must be wrong, because X doesn't descend from Y, etc. That's why the text at the top tries to emphasise that this is a graph of "developed because of a perceived short-coming."

Added in edit: Now submitted as a separate link for more specific discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6970017




This still gets Python wrong. It wasn't a reaction to Perl at all.




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