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Perhaps because lots of languages have done well without a BDFL. Look at the top 10 languages in Tiobe or the RedMonk surveys, and the majority don't have BDFLs
by ternaryoperator 9y ago
Perhaps because lots of languages have done well without a BDFL. Look at the top 10 languages in Tiobe or the RedMonk surveys, and the majority don't have BDFLs.
- igravious 9y agoOk, let's do that: 1 1 Java 12.961% -6.05% 2 2 C 6.477% -4.83% 3 3 C++ 5.550% -0.25% 4 4 C# 4.195% -0.71% 5 5 Python 3.692% -0.71% 6 8 change Visual Basic .NET 2.569% +0.05% 7 6 change PHP 2.293% -0.88% 8 7 change JavaScript 2.098% -0.61% 9 9 Perl 1.995% -0.52% 10 12 change Ruby Of TCL's brethren Python, BDFL PHP, BDFL Perl, BDFL Ruby, BDFL The rest (even though you wouldn't compare them to TCL cuz they're not in the same niche) have/had huge corporate sponsors and/or are entrenched industry standards and have also had iconic/notable figureheads (Gosling, K&R, Stroustrup, Hejlsberg, Eich).
- chromatic 9y agoPerl probably shouldn't be in that list. It's arguable that Larry has had any direct influence on it for at least ten years, perhaps 15.
- pjmlp 9y agoAll of them had at least one company pushing them into the outside world.