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I hear the “marketing” argument all the time and I don’t buy it. Lisp (for example) has been promoted heavily for 60+ years by generation after generation of en
by deterministic 2y ago
I hear the “marketing” argument all the time and I don’t buy it. Lisp (for example) has been promoted heavily for 60+ years by generation after generation of enthusiasts. And it hasn’t convinced the mainstream to switch.
And meanwhile C and C++ code runs the world. Without any commercial marketing behind it.
- db48x 2y agoWow, ok. No commercial marketing? How about conferences? I’m sure none of the corporate sponsors have any marketing reason to contribute. <https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/conferences-worldwide https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/conferences-worldwide>, <https://javaconferences.org/ https://javaconferences.org/> Or magazines? Surely they were entirely supported by their subscribers, not their advertisers. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_magazines_published_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_magazines_pu...>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_computer_magazines_published_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_computer_maga...>