On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 08:15:33 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
On 08/13/2014 09:12 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 04:08:25 UTC, Ola Fosheim Gr
wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 11:09:37 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I can think of very few successful programming languages in
the
market without corporate backing.
Got popular without corporate backing: algol, basic, bcpl,
haskell,
lisp, php, python, prolog...
Algol - Development was paid by Elliott Brothers, Ltd.
Basic - Corporate backing from all companies producing home
computers in
the early 80's. Microsoft was started by writing Basic
interpreters.
Lisp - Development was paid by Xerox PARC, Lisp Machines,
Symbiotics,
Texas Instruments, ...
BCPL - Early development paid by MIT, further uses in Amiga OS
(Commodore), Xerox PARC, ...
Haskell - Many researchers are on Microsoft Research payroll
Python - Zope, Google, Dropbox and all the companies paying
the core
developers salaries
PHP - Zend and all the ISP that only allow PHP as only
scripting
language on their servers
Prolog - I like it a lot, but popular?!? Anyway DEC, Turbo
Prolog, LPA
Prolog
....
D - backed by Facebook .. ok, only a couple of hundred $ :)
I would say D is backed by all companies that allow the core team
members to work on the language on their work hours.
--
Paulo
