Often there are many (more or less reasonable) extrinsic reasons for non-tech domains staying with the stacks they use. I've done some programming for cognitiv

Often there are many (more or less reasonable) extrinsic reasons for non-tech domains staying with the stacks they use. I've done some programming for cognitive psychology experiments, fMRI analysis etc, and although I didn't like the often proprietary systems used (E-Prime, Presentation etc), I could see it would have required hefty investments of very scarce time to switch to something 'better'. The vast bulk of the software was written by non-programmer grad students, for whom the tech was a very 3rd order issue: they just needed their experiments up and running. This was generally done by finding a close-enough prior experiment, and tweaking it in a hurry, often with limited understanding of how the system worked. There was in most cases no possibility of paying programmers to do the work.