This reminds me of an earlier piece, the one about VB. Merit of a given PL and its success/popularity are correlated, surely, but it's more complex than that. T

This reminds me of an earlier piece, the one about VB. Merit of a given PL and its success/popularity are correlated, surely, but it's more complex than that. They can be orthogonal by varying degrees, I'd say. What they really seem to be asking is why hasn't a language which has improved substantially on C received similar adoption. Possibly another qualifier is that the language mustn't be C-like. Or there's an implicit value judgment about Java in there. :)