[jantypas2]

It is also important to remember, languages are tools, not religions. I did a lot of Fortran work for scientific work, Pascal for desktop apps of the day, and C becuase, like today, there's very little hardware C can't get access to. That's the point. We use each language for what it's really good at. We keep the old langauges around because, to be honest, can you swear changing those Fortran libraries will work without breaking something -- who can you check with? The author is probably retired, or dead. Often old languages exist because, like mainframes, the code works and no one dares to change it.