Why do some #programming languages fade away despite promising beginnings? 💻 🤔
Part 2 of this series from Andrew Oram explores languages that struggled to gain lasting adoption, including #Pascal, Objective-C, PL/I, #Ada, #Tcl, & more 👇
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