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Looks like some careful editing of Wikipedia pages would clean this up immensely, the various isolates strands of BASIC stood out to me.

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Not to mention that it's just repeating whatever myths Wikipedia has picked up, like the connection of Javascript to Scheme. A more rigorously curated graph would be very interesting.

So I've had this one under construction for a while:

It's handmade, so it's better but not perfect:

https://app.box.com/s/lo36pbyqi3v2fg1wqefx [Language Family Tree.svg]

https://app.box.com/s/qxq4ohxfv44j3euas5gl [Language Family Tree.graffle]

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