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On 11/06/2010 02:10 PM, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
> Anyway, the more people who use a given language the
> better for that language (more money to make compilers,
> better compilers, more widely available for obscure
> machines, more textbooks...).  That goes for incompetent
> programmers just as much as the ones you prefer to call
> "engineers".

Use, yes. That doesn't necessarily require attracting coders to the language. 
Just as construction workers have to use the materials chosen by the civil 
engineer, coders should have to use the language chosen by the S/W engineer. So 
the use could increase without coders wanting to use the language.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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phone, ... you're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola
Company."
Dr. Strangelove
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