I think the only languages that will ever have won were C, cobol and fortran. Why do we get"scala is too complex" posts but not "partial differential equations

I think the only languages that will ever have won were C, cobol and fortran. Why do we get"scala is too complex" posts but not "partial differential equations are too complicated" posts? Anyway I'm just not going to read them but I will cut MJD slack cause his perl books are terrific.