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Corporate donors are also very important.

It is usually only way some programmers are forced to adopt new programming languages, in spite they religious beliefs regarding how programming should be.

Notorious example, game developers moving from Assembly to C/Pascal and later from C to C++.

Or systems programmers being force to move into C++ instead staying with C (e.g. IO KIt and UMDF).




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