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Viral expansion of any tool depends on (pardon the pandemic reference) a super spreader event or 10. Success needs: 1 A killer app. Pascal/Turbo Pascal, Ema
by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
Viral expansion of any tool depends on (pardon the pandemic reference) a super spreader event or 10.
Success needs:
1 A killer app. Pascal/Turbo Pascal, Email/nascent Internet, VisiCalc/Apple II, 123/IBM PC.
2 decade long over night success like Python
I acquired my "10K hour" badge with Pascal in the late 70s (CDC Cyber 6600) and Mid 80s (PC) and then again with Perl (late 80s to early 2Ks) when each of these
peaked. Coming back to the 2015+ versions (Lazarus / Perl 5.24+) of both was nostalgic but the communities were in the backwaters of programming due to viral success of some many others.
A compelling event would have to happen to elevate them again. It could happen: Something pushed Ada to almost triple its "popularity" ( to < 1%.) According to PYPL (https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html) in the last year.