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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: C and C++, promotion, stabilization, migrationFor embedded
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:51:28 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:43:44 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> The fact that they are widely used indicate that they somehow got
> something right.

They attract users who are using it because everybody else they know is 
using it.

When I first saw PHP, it looked to me like it was copying Perl, but the 
designers didn’t quite understand what they were copying.

More recently, it seems to have started trying to copy Python, but again, 
the designers still don’t quite understand what they are copying. So they 
get it wrong.