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The enhanced version is completely different from the regular version. Not only are the reasons different, but a lot of the languages don't even inherit from the same sources (the regular version had javascript coming from java. wtf?). Just goes to show how arbitrary/silly it all is.

Still pretty awesome. Why did haskell come about? "Lazy evaluation is cool, yo."



It's pretty clearly not meant to be historical at all. That said, it's pretty questionable that it's much accurate at is trying to do either...


'Still pretty awesome. Why did haskell come about? "Lazy evaluation is cool, yo."'

Hah. I added that edge way back when I was back in college. The "extended" graph was actually crowdsourced on the C2 Wiki, circa 2004, and it's pretty cool to see it here now.


It's more like "Miranda -> Too proprietary -> Haskell".


fortran is apparently fixes machine code


It doesn't say it fixes it, it asserts that ForTran was created because people thought Assembler was too low level.

Not the same thing at all.




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