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1. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 12-Nov-2012 09:49:46 EST Evan Prodromou

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   Hypothesis: programming language competition is a zero-sum game. New languages don't create new programmers.
   • Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 12-Nov-2012 09:49:49 EST Evan Prodromou

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     So, net more software. But net value to the world is null or maybe negative; lots of immature DB drivers worse than a few mature ones.
   • Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 12-Nov-2012 09:50:37 EST Evan Prodromou

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     I see exceptions; when a new language is created, we have to create a whole new set of DB libraries, network protocol libraries, etc.