Google definitely biased…

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 04:08:25 UTC, Ola Fosheim Gr 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 11:09:37 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>
>> I can think of very few successful programming languages in 
>> the market without corporate backing.
>
> Got popular without corporate backing: algol, basic, bcpl, 
> haskell, lisp, php, python, prolog...
>

Algol - Development was paid by Elliott Brothers, Ltd.

Basic - Corporate backing from all companies producing home 
computers in the early 80's. Microsoft was started by writing 
Basic interpreters.


Lisp - Development was paid by Xerox PARC, Lisp Machines, 
Symbiotics, Texas Instruments, ...

BCPL - Early development paid by MIT, further uses in Amiga OS 
(Commodore), Xerox PARC, ...

Haskell - Many researchers are on Microsoft Research payroll

Python - Zope, Google, Dropbox and all the companies paying the 
core developers salaries

PHP - Zend and all the ISP that only allow PHP as only scripting 
language on their servers

Prolog - I like it a lot, but popular?!? Anyway DEC, Turbo 
Prolog, LPA Prolog

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