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Re:Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018) by jcelerier on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:45PM (#22753844)
anything can be used "commercially succesfully" given people putting enough work / being bright enough to use the tool. It's not a very useful metric taken like that.
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Re:Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018) by rowanG077 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @06:39PM (#22754239)
Not really, too much work and the business will go under. Imagine Zuckerberg coding the first Facebook in ASM. It most likely would never have gotten of the ground.
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