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I can give you something close to that. In a thread from 1995[1] some users were skeptical and not buying the C++ hype:

> A typical programmer uses FORTRAN, COBOL, C or if they believe the hype, C++. Typical programmers don't use functional languages.

From quite a few posts I saw I gathered that a lot of people thought C++ was not going to gain any real adoption, and an OO C was stupid. Which, looking at it from today’s point of view is hilarious. Makes you wander what new thing we’ll all think is just a trend but will become ubiquitous in 20 years.

[1] http://computer-programming-forum.com/23-functional/b8bd46e4...