Of course it's going to be more convoluted then newer languages like Java: Java doesn't have to maintain backwards compatibility with a 35+ year old programming

Of course it's going to be more convoluted then newer languages like Java: Java doesn't have to maintain backwards compatibility with a 35+ year old programming language. That's just stating the obvious. Yet for some reason people still use it. The question is 'why'. For many cases (not all though), I think the reason is largely just institutional inertia - you stick with the devil you know rather than the devil you don't know.