Comment by coliveira

I think the comment above is applicable because programming is closer to writing than to medicine.

A good example is the web. When it was given to us by Tim-Barnes Lee, the web was a free ecosystem with a simple markup language. But companies like Google decided that this was not a good thing, and now to develop a simple web site you need to know dozens of technologies, otherwise your web page will be considered outdated and disregarded by web search engines.

The same process happened to programming languages, only the ones that could be molded to the needs of large companies were deemed to be "good".