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Silhouette on Sept 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java's Cover (April 2001)

I suppose it depends on your perspective. Obviously many orders of magnitude more useful code has been written in COBOL and C++ than in Smalltalk and Lisp. If the designers of COBOL and C++ set out to make languages that other people could use, then they succeeded spectacularly.

sanderjd on Sept 11, 2012 [–]

> Obviously many orders of magnitude more useful code has been written in COBOL and C++ than in Smalltalk and Lisp.

That may be true, but it is not at all obvious that it is. Do you have some sources to back up that claim?

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