You've done a very good job at illustrating the way I'm interpreting the parent and grandparent comment. Of the list of languages you just wrote out, I've never

You've done a very good job at illustrating the way I'm interpreting the parent and grandparent comment. Of the list of languages you just wrote out, I've never heard of "C--". I've written code in 22/31 of those languages. Depending on how you want to measure the duration of my career, I've got somewhere between 10 and 20 years of experience. If leaders in an organization haven't at least heard of a language that's in the top 5 of TIOBE (http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index), I'd have some serious concerns when considering whether or not to work with them. These days I'm mostly hanging out in embedded land, but I at a minimum spend enough keeping in touch with what's happening in other industries, just so that I can at least understand what other people are talking about and what they're up to.