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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by pjmlp on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:12AM (#21416989)
C had free marketing from universities taking an OS for a symbolic price, with source code available, instead of having to pay for something like VMS.

C++ had plenty of marketing, being adopted by all major C compiler vendors, it was adopted by the GUI frameworks used by Apple, IBM, Microsoft, alongside Borland, Zortech, Symantec, Watcom, Microwerks.

Plenty of marketing they had.

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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by ncmncm on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:38PM (#21421577)
Again: If "marketing" means anything, it means money buying influence, independent of actual users.

I.e., no marketing, just actual use and companies responding to actual use: The diametric opposite of marketing.

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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by pjmlp on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:57PM (#21421839)
"A Dictionary of Marketing", have a good read.

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/978019959...

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