Of the 1259 entries with a creator count, 1078 (85.6%) have a value of 1, so that doesn’t seem so unexpected that the top 10 are all out of that set. There’s something like a 20% chance you’d get that by choosing them at random.
Also, for most of the top ones, although one guy started these many years ago their modern state is a very long way from that and is the result of many years of work by large committees.
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Of the 1259 entries with a creator count, 1078 (85.6%) have a value of 1, so that doesn’t seem so unexpected that the top 10 are all out of that set. There’s something like a 20% chance you’d get that by choosing them at random.
Also, for most of the top ones, although one guy started these many years ago their modern state is a very long way from that and is the result of many years of work by large committees.
COBOL and ALGOL 60, but no FORTRAN?