On Tuesday 09 April 2002 09:41, Tim Peters wrote: ... > No, I don't think backing matters much at all to how a language *becomes* > popular. Ah, OK, we agree on that. Though it helped Java and VB. > C and C++ and Java have both popularity and the backing of > billion-dollar companies *now*, and big money wants to play with big Once something does become that popular, money flows more (again I see Java as different -- big money from the start). > lot of them just copy what the big shops do. The only reason C got into > big shops is that American management is so incompetent it didn't notice > what kinds of risk the hippies in the IT department were taking <0.9 > wink>. This is possible. It's not how it got into IBM (I remember the early times of it at IBM Research), but other managements might have been less careful or competent. > give-the-psf-a-billion-dollars-and-we'll-put-it-to-the-test-ly y'rs - IBM invested about that much in Linux technologies _after_ Linux had started earning huge popularity -- surely helped that popularity grow (IBM claims they're already roughly even in return from that investment through mainframe sales and consulting services -- Palmisano headed that effort, and he's IBM's #1 now, having been recently promoted). I may be wrong, but I perceive a slowly mounting group of entrepreneurs trying to make a billion (or whatever:-) from Python -- and quite ready to feed some of that moolah back, once the moolah IS there. We'll see... Alex
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