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by Supermancho 1653 days ago
> Programming languages do not succeed based on merit. They may fail based on lack of it.

Merit is what I'm talking about, in a way. The ability to use more robust forms of composition is a positive quality for a language. So much so, even if not explicitly stated, most languages have adopted new mechanisms over time beyond simple rigid inheritance trees.

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> Merit is what I'm talking about, in a way. The ability to use more robust forms of composition is a positive quality for a language.

Maybe so, but what I am saying is that merit cannot make a language popular, but marketing can.