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Sorry, I meant in the microprocessor era when programming became mainstream and stepped out of academia. Before that, there were so few programmers that languag

Sorry, I meant in the microprocessor era when programming became mainstream and stepped out of academia. Before that, there were so few programmers that languages didn't need to develop.

pjmlp 8y ago
Burroughs, Olivetti, IBM and DEC were hardly academia and their languages were quite advanced.
- khitchdee 8y ago
  In terms of number of programmers programming them compared to now, I'd guess a factor of 10000 at least