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If people adopted a better-designed language, maybe that could have generated trillions and trillions of dollars for the economy.

• protomyth 13y ago
  We had better designed languages. The problem is getting them installed and easy of learning. The better designed languages weren't better in those areas.
  • 2muchcoffeeman 13y ago
    Oh the other hand a company like Facebook uses it and then they have to resort to developing Hip Hop to wring out more performance.
    • thezilch 13y ago
      On the other hand, they have to resort to writing it in X and probably having a smaller and more expensive pool of talent to pull from. Not to mention, it may have never been a product to begin with or come to fruition fast enough under a different language. I guess everyone should be writing in C, in the event they get to Facebook scale where the economies tip towards running in a faster runtime? Oh wait, there are plenty of C haters, too; let's go shopping!
    • bermanoid 13y ago
      And plenty of companies move away from Python and Ruby once they hit "own our own data center" scale, too. You only optimize once it's worth it.