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0 pointsloeg6y ago0 comments

> Not even close.

What example would you point to as a bigger failure?

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nickelpro6y ago· 1 in thread

Perl 6, which failed so hard it's not called Perl anymore

serf6y ago

yeah, but to be fair people had a gut-hate reaction to the word 'perl' before the update.

Perl ranks up there at the top of 'lists of programming languages people love to hate.'

WesternStar6y ago

All of the C versions post 99 or so probably have worse adoption. New versions of ALGOL, Visual Basic, Cobol. Being infamous isn't failure being unknown is a failure. Raku is a success I never have used Perl but I checked out Raku seems alright.

int_19h6y ago

ALGOL 68?

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