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I think that's exactly what annoys people--that language "success" is not dependent on quality. It's particularly annoying because a lot of people assume a lang

• yesyes 14y ago
  Hallelujah. "I also disagree that it is not believable that the vast majority of programmers have been boneheaded for 40 years." http://paulgraham.com/icadmore.html http://paulgraham.com/icadmore.html The "success" of a language is determined by what the language can do, not what programmers manage to do with it. It is entirely possible there is a language that exists that can do more and do it faster than any other language in existence, but "most programmers", the ones who make a language "popular", either don't know about it or don't want to learn it.