Quite a few languages people declare "dead" are doing just fine. We tend to associate languages like FORTRAN, COBOL, and RPG, with the term legacy which implies

Quite a few languages people declare "dead" are doing just fine. We tend to associate languages like FORTRAN, COBOL, and RPG, with the term legacy which implies old an obsolete. Yet these are behind systems we use everyday but just are not aware of it. Plus these languages serve their purpose very well, FORTRAN is excellent in scientific solutions, COBOL and RPG excel in business math and similar. Solutions to problems are not one language dependent. Exiting systems can have new modern customer facing solutions implemented all the while exploiting the existing code base. In fact there are times were its desirable to keep what is known to work and just give new means to access the code and data behind it.