"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:op.vfsn2hvweav...@localhost.localdomain... > > Just for fun, how would you define a serious language? > > 1. Major major websites use it (facebook is one example, there are many > more). > 2. There are lots of books about it. > 3. people make serious money doing it, not just play money. > 4. major IDEs support it (I use netbeans, and probably would be lost > without it). > 5. The documentation is complete and well written. > 6. It supports interfaces to many major technologies (many databases, > apache, pdf, etc.) >
For me, there'd be two criteria (in no order): 1. Useful 2. Doesn't suck :)
