From: HotFusionMan@... (Albert Davidson Chou) Date: 2002-08-23T04:56:33+09:00 Subject: Paul Graham essay on language popularity I don't read the list/group anymore, so I'm not sure whether this tidbit has been posted before, but Google didn't return anything on "popular paul graham" in comp.lang.ruby, so here goes. I think Ruby satisfies many of Graham's criteria. Paul Graham on the factors behind whether a programming language is popular: http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html Al