[nitid_name]

I imagine a language needs a certain rate of adoption to maintain the amount of programmers actively coding in that language. I feel like the term "momentum" accurately encompasses this idea.

>Lets talk about Justin Bieber!

I don't understand why you invoked the name of a Canadian popstar. There is no chance of such a comment adding to the discussion.

[freyrs3]

There is a strong argument to be made that software profession does have some resemblance to pop music culture. "[Pop culture] it has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it's living in the present." Alan Kay 'made this rather salient observation a while back and the more I think about it the more truth I find in it.