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I almost agree but I can't figure out how did .NET platform became so popular?

Tomasz Nurkiewicz
– Tomasz Nurkiewicz

2011-03-13 09:20:42 +00:00
Commented Mar 13, 2011 at 9:20
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@Tomasz Microsoft pushed .NET as the new platform for Windows (which still has the vast majority of desktop installs) and went so far as to discontinue VB 6.

chrisaycock
– chrisaycock

2011-03-13 17:05:46 +00:00
Commented Mar 13, 2011 at 17:05
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Neither Perl nor Python really owe their initial popularity to the web; they were intended as languages for quickly building tools for sys-admins or operating system services (respectively) and they were hugely successful in those domains before they gained even more traction with web development.

SingleNegationElimination
– SingleNegationElimination

2011-09-28 15:24:08 +00:00
Commented Sep 28, 2011 at 15:24
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@TokenMacGuy : Those domains (including CAD/CAE) were relatively small until Web 1.0 took off. That's when the shelves in the bookstores started overflowing with books on these languages.

hotpaw2
– hotpaw2

2011-12-02 19:44:03 +00:00
Commented Dec 2, 2011 at 19:44
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@hotpaw2: Perl was extremely popular for scripting on UNIX some years before home internet access was at all common.

kevin cline
– kevin cline

2013-03-08 20:30:02 +00:00
Commented Mar 8, 2013 at 20:30

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