These mousepads were reason number one, this is reason number 2…
Click the ad to see it on its original page at full size.
Update
I did a little Googling and found that Qsol ran this ad back in 2000 in Linux Journal. After receiving complaints (and increased sales), Qsol’s president Joe Safai apologizes and promised not to [...]
[Cross-posted to the Tucows Developer Blog]
I suppose it’s fitting that this article is being published on Friday the 13th: it’s SoftwareDeveloper.com’s Ghosts in the Machine: 12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off. The 12 languages covered in the article are:
ALGOL 68
brainfuck
befunge
REBOL
CFML (as in ColdFusion)
Java2k
INTERCAL
VRML
SMIL
Haskell
Delphi
PowerBuilder
Some of the languages in this list were never meant to take [...]