Yes the chart has errors, yes some of the vectors make no sense. Yes, your version of the chart would differ greatly (hell, his "enhanced" one differs significantly from the basic one.)
Cut the guy some slack. He put the work in and the result is a pretty cool look at how he makes sense of the way various languages interrelate and borrow from each other. There are others showing the way other people think [1] and I hope some of you will try your hand at it.
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Yes the chart has errors, yes some of the vectors make no sense. Yes, your version of the chart would differ greatly (hell, his "enhanced" one differs significantly from the basic one.)
Cut the guy some slack. He put the work in and the result is a pretty cool look at how he makes sense of the way various languages interrelate and borrow from each other. There are others showing the way other people think [1] and I hope some of you will try your hand at it.
[1] Personally, I really like the one O'Reilly did a few years back: http://oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog_lang_poster.pdf I suspect I tend to think more linearly than the OP
Well said, if perfection is the only thing worthy of being posted nothing would be said.
If the OP's main premise holds, it should take only some research to "expand" oreilly's graph with improvements between each language.