> has not yet proved useful or valuable They would have, had they been the "first mover". Hence my Javascript analogy Had a better language been released at t

> has not yet proved useful or valuable They would have, had they been the "first mover". Hence my Javascript analogy Had a better language been released at that time it would have been just as useful and valuable. In fact much more so. But as is usual, a "worse_is_better" first mover accrues so much head start in the mind share and in the tooling / literature that it becomes impractical to switch, especially when both can express the same set of things (just that one does it more concisely than the other). Another shallower example: imperial vs metric units. I dont think its like Haskel::C at all. Haskell is way more mathy and has a steeper learning curve than C. One who can master curl divergence and vector stoke's theorem can master geometric algebra with less effort