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Re:The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives by tikhonj on Friday June 08, 2012 @03:09PM (#4085711)
I think that's exactly what annoys people--that language "success" is not dependent on quality. It's particularly annoying because a lot of people assume a language is well designed just because it is popular.
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Re:The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives by yesyes on Friday June 08, 2012 @08:40PM (#4086787)
Hallelujah.

"I also disagree that it is not believable that the vast majority of programmers have been boneheaded for 40 years."

http://paulgraham.com/icadmore.html

The "success" of a language is determined by what the language can do, not what programmers manage to do with it.

It is entirely possible there is a language that exists that can do more and do it faster than any other language in existence, but "most programmers", the ones who make a language "popular", either don't know about it or don't want to learn it.

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