I'm not actually familiar with the context in which this checklist was originally written. But I really love it for two reasons: First, it demonstrates how pro

I'm not actually familiar with the context in which this checklist was originally written. But I really love it for two reasons: First, it demonstrates how programming languages have been making the same tradeoffs for years, to the point that someone was able to make a checklist of what's wrong with any programming language that still works years later. Second, you can fill this out for any of the big programming languages and many will do very badly. It shows how whether a programming language succeeds is unrelated to how good it is. An actually accurate checklist would have one item: You're programming language will succeed because: [X] It is tied to a popular platform.