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Maybe my color perception is off, but it looks like Python is considered a root language with no significant predecessors. Which doesn't seem correct - Python w

• smitty1e 6y ago
  The arrows showed descent from C and Perl.
  • UncleOxidant 6y ago
    But the color (black) in the legend indicates no significant predecessors.
    • macintux 6y ago
      That only applies to the bolded languages. A bit confusing.
• kens 6y ago
  > Maybe my color perception is off It's interesting to see this article on the front page at the same time as the Color Blindness article [1] discussing the difficulty of distinguishing tiny color spots. I'm not color blind, but I needed to zoom in on the first figure to see the difference between the red dot and the other red dot. Not to mention the black dot, the dark green dot that looks black at a distance, and the black dot that's actually an asterisk. Now I understand why these are so hard to distinguish. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24672463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24672463
• ncmncm 6y ago
  Listening to OCaml users, you would never get any impression that its toolchain was mature.