Google definitely biased…

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 08:15:33 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> 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 $ :)

I would say D is backed by all companies that allow the core team 
members to work on the language on their work hours.

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Paulo