It's not so true for C and/or C++, because some of their niches are cutting-edge, like gaming and VMs. Where it is true is for languages like Visual Basic, or

It's not so true for C and/or C++, because some of their niches are cutting-edge, like gaming and VMs. Where it is true is for languages like Visual Basic, or heaven forbid COBOL. If you are working with COBOL today, or even ten years ago, you're probably maintaining a 1980's mainframe for a 1980's company (VB is probably 90's). If I were to pull a prediction completely out of my ass, then my complete lack of experience or expertise in the matter says that Java is more likely to end up the VB of tomorrow than the C++ of tomorrow.