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by Smaug123 2182 days ago
The usual four corners I give as my examples are Haskell, C, Lisp, SQL. (That is, I usually replace the author's Smalltalk with SQL.)

I then go further and describe languages as linear combinations of these: Python as C minus Haskell plus Lisp; Mathematica as Lisp plus SQL; F# as (Haskell plus C)/2.