Google definitely biased…

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 09:04:18 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Paulo

I wouldn't call it "backed" in this case. D is "used" by the 
companies just like any other language, which is different from 
paying core developers of the language salaries or developing a 
language in house.

Bounties are some kind of backing, I agree, because people are 
paid to fix things in the library / core.