Ask HN: Updating the Programming Language Family Tree
When I received the template of the current state of the poster, I was a bit disappointed by seeing the timeline culminating in a bunch of thinning parallel lines of the past 5-10 years, after the exciting crissing and crossing of the wild 70s. So I decided to not just extend the tree with the well known established languages, and to not only add the well known up-and-comming languages, but to add some of the less well known and experimental languages as well. Otherwise one could get a distressing sense that the world of programming languages has grown stagnant and tentative, whereas I think we're on the cusp of a new explosion of exploratory languages.
Let me give you a run-down of the languages that popped up since 2000 that I've collected so far, and would love to hear of any others I might have missed and you deem important. Please note though that both space on the poster and time available to me are finite , so I will have to draw the line somewhere - unfortunately I won't be able to include a majority of the 8512 languages present in the Encyclopedia of Computer Languages (http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/) :)
New "major" players: Clojure, D, Erlang, F#, Factor, Funnel, Go, Groovy, IO, Lua, Scala, Windows Power shell
Experimental/young languages: Agena, Alef++, BeanShell, BitC, Boo, Cat, Chapel, Clay, Cobra, Falcon, Fantom, Fortress, Frink, Ioke, Joy, Judoscript, Mirah, Nice, Noop, OOC, Pizza, Quark, Reia, Rust, Scratch, X10
PS: Does anyone have any information about the date of appearance and languages that influenced the design of Fjölnir (Icelandic programming language) or DRAKON , PROL2, Rapira or Glagol (Soviet/russian programming languages)? My Google-Fu fails me on these.