Comment on Dear Reddit, Hacker News...parentComments−nailer17yAre C++ and Lisp successful?C++ doesn't seem so popular in the last decade. Lisp was That Language That Abuse Was Written In to a lot of people.−jbjohns17yC++ certainly was popular, in fact the most popular by every measurement I saw back in the day. And he's talking about how it got there when it did, not today. I don't necessarily agree, but what he was saying should have been pretty obvious. :)−d0mine17yBoth C++ and Lisp are successful. Of cause It depends on how you define a "success" among thousands of programming languages.
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Are C++ and Lisp successful?
C++ doesn't seem so popular in the last decade. Lisp was That Language That Abuse Was Written In to a lot of people.
C++ certainly was popular, in fact the most popular by every measurement I saw back in the day. And he's talking about how it got there when it did, not today. I don't necessarily agree, but what he was saying should have been pretty obvious. :)
Both C++ and Lisp are successful. Of cause It depends on how you define a "success" among thousands of programming languages.