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> Yes, because as I mentioned on the other comment you ignored

I am not the other person you responded to.

Anyway, don't you think the fact that so many others decided to copy the language and implement their own versions of it is a testament to its popularity and not just that it got pushed by a single company?



It was pushed by UNIX popularity.


It was, and still proves that a company marketing it with $500M didn't happen. Are you also going to say the same about python, or can we end this discussion?


UNIX was just pushed by AT&T, Sun, HP, IBM, Compaq, Dec.

I let you sum how much money they invested into selling their UNIX workstations.

As for Python, Zope made it during the early days, plus the research labs and companies that employed Guido, and if you want a list,

- DARPA funding in 1999

- Zope in 2000

- Google in 2005

- Dropbox in 2013

- Microsoft in 2020

You can sum up Guido's salary as per those corporations.


Exactly! Thanks for proving the point. It was a collective effort of people/companies pushing a good programming language rather than a single company (Oracle) doing it. Not to mention that they license it in certain cases.


Whatever.




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