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I think www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/current/22300-1/lectures/FP_history.pdf is a better graph because it focuses more on functional languages and the layout is easier to navigate.


That is a very nice graph. I was shooting for a more comprehensive graph, but as you see at the cost of comprehension.


Why did you include Fortran and Algol? I'm curious what warrants their inclusion, but not BASIC or ADA or a variety of other languages... they certainly don't meet the textbook definition of "functional."


a) it focuses /less/ on functional languages, since it includes many fewer.

The nice one about this graph is that it is relatively complete.




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