I think the bottom line for a language is to be successful not whether or not the founder has whatever acreditation someone worships. I believe C has been pret

I think the bottom line for a language is to be successful not whether or not the founder has whatever acreditation someone worships. I believe C has been pretty successful thus the reason why I was asking you about it...was Dennis Richie a compiler designer or a unix developer? Dart seems to be used pretty much only by Google with few exceptions. I'm not saying it's a bad language but it's just not successful. I believe popularity is important because a death language doesn't solve problems. Engineering is about solving problems anyway not about developing the most complex/expressive language. As far as Go design is concerned I believe that someone who designed few programming languages can be called a "pro" even if he doesn't agree with the mainstream opinion about what makes a good design. Simplicity is underestimated.