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What Makes a Programming Language Successful?

Posted by timothy on from the users-programs-books-community dept.

danielstoner writes "The article '13 reasons why Ruby, Python and the gang will push Java to die... of old age' makes an interesting analysis of the programming languages battling for a place in programmers' minds. What really makes a language popular? What really makes a language 'good'? What is success for a programming language? Can we say COBOL is a successful language? What about Ruby, Python, etc?"

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  1. Another one bites the dust... by Smith55js · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Every time Slashdot posts a link to an article on another website, that site gets hammered and (usually) goes down due to bandwidth being exceeded. Maybe Slashdot should adopt a policy of copying the article or at least, informing the webhost of the site you're about to shut down that a link will be posted.

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    ~smith55js
  2. If we're talking about server-side languages... by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Then it's obviously PHP, as it's the most installed setup at most ISPs/web hosting companies.

    It doesn't matter if another language is better, faster or more secure, because if you don't use PHP then you are seriously limiting your hosting options.