Most of those languages are as close to dead and buried as can be, except maybe on an academic&#x27;s or aging hobbyist&#x27;s bookshelf, or perhaps running on a ghost machine in a forgotten room at a large corporation or government office. The majority of people who programmed in those languages in their heydays have long since retired.<p>Sure, there were languages before C that did Important Things, but C works as a starting point of discussion because most programmers today have at least heard of it, even if they never use it.<p>Aside from NASA or JPL, who would even start a new project in any of those languages, because of one important paradigm?