Google definitely biased…

[simendsjo via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/13/2014 09:12 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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
> 
> ....
> 
> 

D - backed by Facebook .. ok, only a couple of hundred $ :)