Franz' Fritz Kunze on the secrets of running a successful programming language business [via anarchaia]:
Posted by jjwiseman at November 30, 2005 08:54 PMProgramming language is a cult. It's a religion. Many programmers stick to one language and do not change it for 50 years, their entire career. So you have to be like a cult leader to gain a good user base.
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Databases sells better than languages as product.