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From: raj <israelrt@optushome.com.au>
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>Who said this?... "garbage dumps are full of superior solutions". The process
>of adapting programming language has very little technical component, it is
>rather business and social process.

True.
Just look at the marginalisation of Lisp , Smalltalk and ML.