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C++ within 10 years had conquered the world. Go, on the other hand...

• tptacek 7y ago
  Had it? As a software developer in the 1990s, I saw a lot more C than C++.
• wglb 7y ago
  I think that C++ was considerably more rare for many years during the conquest. JWZ had a long and interesting rant about it.
• hnarn 7y ago
  > C++ within 10 years had conquered the world. C++ is another language, and it conquered another world.
• SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
  C++ was invented in 1979. In 1989 the most popular programming languages, in order of popularity, were: 1. C 2. Ada 3. Pascal 4. Lisp 5. Fortran 6. C++ 7. Assembly 8. COBOL 9. BASIC 10. APL Source - https://youtu.be/Og847HVwRSI?t=120 https://youtu.be/Og847HVwRSI?t=120
  • Koshkin 7y ago
    More accurately, "In 1982, Stroustrup started to develop a successor to C with Classes, which he named C++". (Source - Wikipedia.) As far as Go's popularity, see e.g. https://fossbytes.com/most-popular-programming-languages/ https://fossbytes.com/most-popular-programming-languages/.
    • SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
      True enough, one could name any year between 1979 and 1985 as the "invention" year of C++, and the claim would have some merit. http://www.cplusplus.com/info/history/ http://www.cplusplus.com/info/history/
  • kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
    Those numbers are bogus. There's no way Ada eclipsed all assembly langs in any meaningful way.