> FORTRAN --"the infantile disorder"--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
We're gonna be stuck with cpp for at least a thousand years aren't we.
I'm doing my part, still keeping C++ systems alive so the next generation can see the horrors created by our predecessors. At least this particular program doesn't have the same problems as the last one I worked on, where some genius decided to make their own shared_ptr and did it wrong among many other bizarre choices.
In general, you can assume that any technology or standard which had significant market share during a growth period will have, at the very least, a long tail of continued use for the foreseeable future. Stuff that's in use and works doesn't get replaced unless the alternatives beat out the switching cost.
For another example, I typed this comment on a QWERTY keyboard.
I wrote a lot of FORTRAN code in the 80's and 90's. In all that time, I don't recall any of my programs crashing. IMHO FORTRAN is a much safer language than C++. The only issues I ever had with FORTRAN were getting my programs optimized enough to fit into the tiny memory space available on the ancient computers I was using.
We're gonna be stuck with cpp for at least a thousand years aren't we.