An interesting observation

[BCS]

Walter Bright wrote:
> BCS wrote:
> 
>>
>> http://www.sysprog.net/quotcob.html
>>
>> Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been 
>> bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++.
>> The good languages have been those that were designed for their own 
>> creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp. (Paul Graham)
>>
>> can we add D to this list?
> 
> 
> It's ironic that you mention that. My experience as a software engineer 
> is that when I write a program that delivers what the marketing folks 
> tell me people will buy, it fails. Whenever I wrote a program to please 
> myself, it's been a big success. What's most interesting is that the 
> latter is especially true when the marketing folks tell me that nobody 
> would ever want the program I'm writing.
> 
> And yes, that applies to D, too. When I started on it, my friends and 
> colleagues would all smile sadly and indulgently at my folly.
> 
> They said I should do a javascript compiler, because what the world 
> needed was a fast javascript engine. So I built one, it ran twice as 
> fast as jscript, and I couldn't give it away <g>.
> 
> Meanwhile, D took off.


I think that one reasons that stuff crated by somebody for themselves 
work so well is that both the creator and the client are experts in the 
domain. The creator can get instant feedback from the client as if they 
had them sitting in the same room, because the client is in fact the 
creator.