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[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> I only meant that the widespead adoption of Java shows how the public at 
> large cares very little about the performance issues you mentioned  Java
> is one of the most widely used languages and it's also successful in many 
> fields. Things could be better from programming language theory's point 
> of view, but the business world is more interesting in profits and the 
> large pool of Java coders has given better benefits than more expressive 
> languages. I don't think that says anything against my notes about 
> algebraic data types.


Choice of a language has numerous factors, so you cannot dismiss one factor 
because the other factors still make it an attractive choice.

For example:

"the widespread adoption of horses shows how the public at large cares very 
little about the cars you mentioned."