On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Hasanuddin Tamir wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Selena Sol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
>
> > > Elaine said:
> > > I'm not convinced that a lack of advertising money is the reason why Perl
> > > isn't as popular as Java or MS products.
> >
> > I disagree. I would agree with Stas Bekman that the biggest thing that can
> > be done for Perl advocacy is to find a big company to get behind it.
>
> If Java has Sun behind, is it in the same sense that C has (again)
> Microsoft, Borland, or other compiler vendor behind? If not, what
> makes it different between Perl and C in popularity while none of
> them really "owns" C?
I think it's very simple. When C has started (70's) it was competing with
other available languages based on its merits and not how much money was
put into marketing machine. See http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
Now that's it's won its darvinism game, it's here to stay for a long time,
since almost everything has guts written in C, including languages like
Perl.
The story is different with Perl.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm too young to know the early CS history
from my own exprerience, my history knowledge is based on things that I
read and hear.
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