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You don't seem to understand how languages survive. Languages survive because people write programs in them, and have to be maintained and understood. Much like words, the dictionary can't just say that a word is no longer relevant and everybody stops using it. Much like C and Perl, the problem is,
lots of programs are written in C++. If I don't want to learn Perl, that doesn't matter, because I still have to understand it if I want to hack on a lot of software, and then I'm encouraged to write more software in it.
Who is it that keeps saying C++ is no longer relevant? I'm not interested in C++, so I'm not subjected to this kind of marketing propaganda.