{"title":"What makes a programming language popular?: an essay from a historical perspective","authors":"M. Derk","doi":"10.1145/2089131.2089139","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Among the thousands of programming languages available, some languages become extremely popular, while others, thought to be superior in many ways, languish. This essay explores this situation from a historical perspective.","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2089131.2089139","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Among the thousands of programming languages available, some languages become extremely popular, while others, thought to be superior in many ways, languish. This essay explores this situation from a historical perspective.