On 8/28/2012 1:29, Invisible wrote:
> Is it because it requires people to actually learn new ideas and concepts?

Nope!  Remember, everyone has to learn new ideas and concepts for their 
first language.  People who learned assembler have to learn new ideas for 
Java, as do people who know C already. Javascript has lots of new ideas and 
it's quite popular.

> Or because it isn't backwards compatible with
> the massive legacy codebases that already exist?

Again, no. Remember that LISP predates COBOL and C++ and probably even C. 
All of that predates Java and Javascript.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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