C is certainly still popular, but it probably wouldn't be if there wasn't so much infrastructure built in the last 50 years that keeps it in demand. What's rea

C is certainly still popular, but it probably wouldn't be if there wasn't so much infrastructure built in the last 50 years that keeps it in demand. What's really interesting to me is that SQL and ML were created in 1973 and 1974 respectively. And yes, those languages have evolved over time, and yes, they have some warts and telltale signs of age... but overall they still are considered very high level languages, and are still incredibly popular in their own right. For a recent project, I chose F# (an ML descendant) and SQL, not because I had to integrate with legacy software written in those languages, but because they're still great languages.