On Aug 4, 4:04 pm, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2010-08-04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > > > In message <i3bseh$kf...@reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards wrote: > > >> The problem has nothing to do with the relative merits of the > >> languages. The problem is inertia. > > > So how was C++ able to get popular in the first place? > > Building on C's popularity helped.
AT&T + Money + C backward compatibility > > And how was Java able to grab some share from it? > > Good question. Both IBM and Sun put a lot of effort/money behind > Java. Sun + IBM + Money + 90s Web trinkets Carl Banks (haven't seen a Java applet in ages) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list