"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:i1ihke$253...@digitalmars.com... > On 07/13/2010 02:00 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "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 >> >> :) >> >> > > That leaves only D on the table :o). >
Yup :) Well, and Nemerle if you're doing something that doesn't need systems capabilities.
