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		sophacles on Nov 1, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming is a Pop Culture Yeah, that was in fact the gist of the next sentence in the essay.

_csoz on Nov 1, 2012 [–]

Actually he makes the opposite (wrong) causal argument that because of popularity these styles caught on and became the "language's style". Nothing to do with popularity, it was all predetermined in the vendor's libraries.

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