The programming languages paper you link to uses Wikipedia links (between languages) as the basis for its analysis. The Wikipedia links tend to be done by youngsters making assumptions about what people in the past were thinking, rather than based on what the language creators said influenced them.
If you are interested in evidence-based software engineering, check out the pdf+data here http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
The programming languages paper you link to uses Wikipedia links (between languages) as the basis for its analysis. The Wikipedia links tend to be done by youngsters making assumptions about what people in the past were thinking, rather than based on what the language creators said influenced them.
If you are interested in evidence-based software engineering, check out the pdf+data here http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/