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Re:12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off by sethg on Friday July 13, 2007 @02:58PM (#34096)
Even that would be too generous. Brainfuck, Befunge, INTERCAL, and Java2k were jokes, duh, never intended by their authors to "take off" in the first place. And I think "never took off" and "waned" are both inaccurate when applied to Haskell.

I don't know much about VRML, SMIL, and Haskell, but I'm not inclined to trust this author's judgement of them.

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Re:12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off by brlewis on Friday July 13, 2007 @03:07PM (#34097)
You're right. Haskell, despite having been around a few years, is early in its life. I suppose the right title would be "12 languages that aren't wildly popular in 2007."
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