[SeppoErviala]

Why are we still using english language? It's such an old tool that I think we should transcend from it to a new level.

It took quite long for personal computers to catch up with super-computers of 50s and 60s. Many tools and concepts might have been conceived 60 years ago but they have become easily accessible much more recently. In late 80s and early 90s most people still had to pay a lot of money for tools like C-compiler and UNIX-like systems. Internet became easily accessible only in 90s.

There are some old techs that are just now becoming easily available like transactional memory. We used to need specialized hardware for that, but now many languages have libraries for software trasactional memory. Some are even implementing it as a language feature. This development is likely due to rise of consumer multi-core devices.