Hello,<br>reading this thread a question came to me:<br>Is there a way of automatically deriving programming languages ascendancy?<br><br>Like biologist can determine the distance between two genotypes, and determine a hierarchy between species from that.<br>
<br>Are you aware of researchs made in the field?<br><br>On the net I found interesting graphs but no comments on the methodology.<br><a href="http://www.levenez.com/lang/">http://www.levenez.com/lang/</a><br><a href="http://rigaux.org/language-study/diagram.html">http://rigaux.org/language-study/diagram.html</a><br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Corentin<br><br>