[pjmlp]

Languages are software products like everything else in computing, either they evolve or they whither and die.

C especially was designed with lots of security defects, and had it not been for UNIX being available for free, it would probably never taken off.

[HexDecOctBin]

More likely they evolve AND they whither and die. The number of software I have stopped using due to bad updates is much higher than those with not enough updates.