[ameliaquining]

Well, it's not a claim that these are the ten most influential programming languages. Lisp was clearly more influential than most of these, but it didn't make the list because it's still alive.

I think the title was mostly just a pun/riff on the title of the other post linked in the first paragraph, which did claim to be a list of the most influential languages, and doesn't really make sense if read as a specific concrete claim.