From the original article: " Which is why we still, today, have extremely popular languages maintaining compatibility with a language from 1969 — so old that it

From the original article: " Which is why we still, today, have extremely popular languages maintaining compatibility with a language from 1969 — so old that it probably couldn’t get a programming job." Yikes! How about "old enough to have a crapton of experience I'd really like to learn from/integrate with my company"? I know there is ageism in this industry (towards both people and tools), but sometimes the cavalierness with which people throw out the idea that "old == bad" and "good == new" comes as a shock. And besides that, shouldn't we be proud of half a century of stability and compatability? Isn't "well-designed systems that stand the test of time" a holy grail to reach for, rather than poke fun at?