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In my square for programming languages, SNOBOL and COBOL both made the list (in that order, too -- I've never even heard of SNOBOL!), but none of the following appear: (in no particular order...)

C, C++, C#, Common Lisp, Java, Ruby, Smalltalk, x86

Heh, I listed those in alphabetical order without even planning to...

For me it's 1. Pascal, 2. Fortran, 3. Scheme. Guess the order is somehow scrambled, which would explain that Yahoo turns out number 1 for "search engines" :)

Funny how it partially confuses Pascal with the real thing, but still records its influences.

Try adding these columns: Paradigm, Typing Discipline, Designed By, Major Implementations

Impressive.

Not really -- those are all categories in the Wikipedia sidebar. The data is already structured for easy consumption.

Try something like a "Version" column and it starts to break down. It makes decent guesses overall, but they're not current (e.g. Python says 2.4, where 2.6.2 or 3.0.1 would be better).