On 2011-11-11 05:35, J Arrizza wrote:
True but somehow they manage to become famous because there was a killer feature everyone wanted to use. If I recall correctly:Perl - An easy way to create complex shell scripts and the major language to be used for web development (CGI) Ruby - It only took off because Ruby on Rails Python - People only started taking it serious after Zope appeared Paulo, with respect, I disagree. A single killer feature does not have enough breadth to entice a developer community that has large and varied needs from a language. To me, it is this that caused the success of these languages in a short time: Perl has CPAN Ruby has gems Python has PyPi. Java has the JDK C# has the CLR
I'm working on a package manager for D: https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Orbit-Package-Manager-for-D -- /Jacob Carlborg
