On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 04:08:25 UTC, Ola Fosheim Gr
wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 11:09:37 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I can think of very few successful programming languages in
the market without corporate backing.
Got popular without corporate backing: algol, basic, bcpl,
haskell, lisp, php, python, prolog...
Algol - Development was paid by Elliott Brothers, Ltd.
Basic - Corporate backing from all companies producing home
computers in the early 80's. Microsoft was started by writing
Basic interpreters.
Lisp - Development was paid by Xerox PARC, Lisp Machines,
Symbiotics, Texas Instruments, ...
BCPL - Early development paid by MIT, further uses in Amiga OS
(Commodore), Xerox PARC, ...
Haskell - Many researchers are on Microsoft Research payroll
Python - Zope, Google, Dropbox and all the companies paying the
core developers salaries
PHP - Zend and all the ISP that only allow PHP as only scripting
language on their servers
Prolog - I like it a lot, but popular?!? Anyway DEC, Turbo
Prolog, LPA Prolog
....
