A lot of new languages fail. It's still a good measure of where things will be 10-20 years later. Look at new languages of 1990-2000: Haskell, Python, VB, Lua,

A lot of new languages fail. It's still a good measure of where things will be 10-20 years later. Look at new languages of 1990-2000: Haskell, Python, VB, Lua, R, Ruby, Java, Delphi, JS, PHP, Rebol. 4/11 are mostly irrelevant now. 4/11 are important niche languages. 3/11: Python, Java, and JS are dominant players. 1990-2000 might be special because of a massive shift toward IT systems in general, but it might not be and be an indication of languages lifecycle.