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Here, a genealogy of programming languages is shown. Languages are categorized under the ancestor language with the strongest influence. Of course, any such categorization has a large arbitrary element, since programming languages often incorporate major ideas from multiple sources.

ALGOL based

APL based

BASIC based

Batch languages

COBOL based

COMIT based

DCL based

ed based

Eiffel based

Forth based

Fortran based

FP based

HyperTalk based

Java based

JOSS based

Lisp based

ML based

PL based

Prolog based

SASL Based

SETL based

sh based

Simula based

Tcl based

Today based

Others