Re:Common Lisp Koans
by jackdaniel on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:25AM
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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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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.