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> There'd been a number of spectacular C++ project failures...

And the most successful company of that era (Google) went ahead and implemented their product (the search engine) in C++...

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It's one thing when a tech company with lots of technical talent like Google decides to build its own (core) tools in a language like C++. It's another thing entirely when large numbers of IT departments, who have vastly more business than technical knowledge, try to build sprawling business applications in it. That's where most of the failures were occurring and why they were looking at Smalltalk, Java etc.

Years later. What later became Google was initially prototyped in Java and Python.

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