In answer to the post's lament that popular & well-regarded languages seem not to emerge from academic work, I'd like to point out that the Julia programming la

In answer to the post's lament that popular & well-regarded languages seem not to emerge from academic work, I'd like to point out that the Julia programming language (released in only 2012, around the time of this post) whose core design formed Jeff Bezanson's PhD thesis [1]. Getting the dissertation done was also considered a high-priority issue [2] for the language development project :-) [1]: https://github.com/JeffBezanson/phdthesis/blob/master/main.pdf https://github.com/JeffBezanson/phdthesis/blob/master/main.p... [2]: https://github.com/julialang/julia/issues/8839 https://github.com/julialang/julia/issues/8839