Put it this way. If C and C++ stop being popular, they'll still survive anyway. Same with Fortran. You just don't see Fortran as often because it's not a genera

Put it this way. If C and C++ stop being popular, they'll still survive anyway. Same with Fortran. You just don't see Fortran as often because it's not a general-purpose language like the other two. You'll also never see Fortran as often because people who write Fortran don't share.