D beyond the specs

[bachmeier]

On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 15:14:08 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 14:50:26 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>
>> Well, Algol, Pascal, Oberon, Component Pascal, VHDL, Ada are 
>> all examples of programming languages successfully used in 
>> Europe, while having adoption issues on US.
>>
>> Even Delphi is still having regular conferences and magazine 
>> articles here in Germany.
>
> Now that's interesting, so maybe there is a pattern or a 
> quality those languages have in common.

Allow me to put on my economist hat and say you might be looking 
for explanations when none are required. Much of programming 
language adoption involves choosing languages others are using 
(see, well, any conversation about programming languages if you 
don't think it matters, or even the continued use of C++). There 
doesn't have to be a reason to settle on a particular language. 
Perfect example is the qwerty keyboard. There's nothing special 
about a qwerty keyboard. That is the arrangement of keys that 
some guy randomly chose many decades back. We continue to use 
qwerty because that's what we use - not for any particular reason.