This dimension names the family of related languages that a specific programming language belongs to. Wikipedia notes that "the design of programming languages has been strongly influenced by computer architecture, with most imperative languages designed around the ubiquitous von Neumann architecture," a shared influence that ties many languages into the same lineage. Browsing this way moves between a language and its close relatives.
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1. Wikipedia: Esoteric programming language
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The earliest, and still the canonical example of an esoteric programming language, is INTERCAL, designed in 1972 by Don Woods and James M. Lyon, who said that their intention was to create a programming language unlike any with which they were familiar, namely FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, ALGOL, SNOBOL, SPITBOL, FOCAL, SOLVE, TEACH, APL, LISP, and PL/I.
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