> If a million people professed to believe that, say, brainfuck was fit as a general purpose programming language that in and of itself would not make it so. N

> If a million people professed to believe that, say, brainfuck was fit as a general purpose programming language that in and of itself would not make it so. No, but if millions of people actually did manage to use Brainfuck for general purpose programming, then that would be evidence that it really is fit as a general purpose programming language, even if it's not ideal. Brainfuck isn't in that position, hence no one thinks it's fit, but C++ is. People do use it for general purpose programming, even if their program could be rewritten in a garbage-collected language.