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Re:Common Lisp Koans by TeMPOraL on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @05:30PM (#19314871)
Low popularity, meaning it's much more difficult to find employees proficient in it, making it a bad proposition for companies... which keeps it unpopular. The vicious cycle of fashion.
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Re:Common Lisp Koans by jackdaniel on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:25AM (#19316970)
If such vicious cycles were true no new programming language would gain adoption; after all even Java was "a new language" at some point of time.
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Re:Common Lisp Koans by lispm on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:15AM (#19317189)
What Java helped was the big pockets of SUN / later Oracle, because it was their language. Initially for small machines, it then helped them to sell lots of hardware into the 'enterprise' running slow (but portable) Java applications.
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