Are Languages pretty much "stable" for now?

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Published on 2012-10-03T20:11:27Z Indexed on 2012/10/03 21:54 UTC
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Pardon the odd question, but I looked recently at a sort of "timeline" of Programming Languages and while alot has changed in the past 5-10 years and what has grown, there are alot of languages that have pretty much "stayed" the same in their same niche/use.

Like for Example C.....we don't really ever see much languages being developed (Correct me if im wrong) to try to Unseat C, however there are alot of languages that try to do Similar things (Look at all the SQL/No-SQL languages) Scripting Languages, etc...

Is there a reason for this? Or is it just because C does what C does so well.....that there isn't really a need?

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