What Makes A Programming Language Good

[spir]

On 02/04/2011 09:55 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros:
>
>> That language ecosystems are what matter, not just the language itself.
>
> This is true, but only once your language is already very good :-)

A key point is, imo, whether the eco-system grows, and how harmoniously, is 
completely unrelated to whether your language is "very good", or how good it is 
--compared to others of similar vein. I would say these are close to orthogonal 
dimensions, with probability close to 1 ;-) (sorry for unclear formulation, I 
guess you get the point anyway).

Denis
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