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so which language besides python is really really successful and doesn't bave C syntax?
by mpfundstein 6y ago
so which language besides python is really really successful and doesn't bave C syntax?
- shakna 6y agoDepends what you mean by successful. If you're willing to accept heavily entrenched ("a lot of development" as in the parent), then languages like Fortran and COBOL are highly successful. They underlie an enormous amount of infrastructure in the world.
- jmull 6y agoSQL
- arexxbifs 6y agoFortran, Cobol, Algol, Pascal, Basic, Rexx, Ruby and Lisp have all experienced success relative to the size of the software industry during their peaks - perhaps most notably Visual Basic and Turbo Pascal.
- dragonwriter 6y agoFortran, COBOL, BASIC, Algol, and Lisp peaked well before C was popular (in some cases peaked before C existed), and Algol (obviously), Pascal, Python, and Ruby, are all languages in the Algol-derived syntax family, like C. Visual Basic is probably the biggest success of a non-Algol-derived general purpose language after the dominance of C as anything other than mostly-legacy. There are some others (Erlang, some Lisp-family languages [recently Clojure], some ML family languages) but languages with Algol-derived syntax are still far and away dominant. There's also lots of not-general-purpose languages without Algol syntax (SQL, for instance.)