The scale is useless because the center has moved over time? It used to be less fuzzy (assembled -- compiled) and now has more components (dynamic typing, garb

The scale is useless because the center has moved over time? It used to be less fuzzy (assembled -- compiled) and now has more components (dynamic typing, garbage collection), but I don't see how anyone could deduce that the scale is nolonger a meaningful high-level (:^o) classification of a language.