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I would mention here Richard Gabriel's essay "The End of History and the Last Programming Language", which you can find at http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

His argment that "Languages are accepted and evolve by a social process, not a technical or technological one." seems to apply here, also (in the context of the time) "Successful languages must have modest or minimal computer resource requirements."



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