Accordingly to your logic then we should have no language other than C because everyone had decades worth of experience in that language and was not interested in starting fresh again.
From my point of view I was very relieved when imperative languages and their adept seemed finally to embrace better tools after Y2K.
Apparently now there is Go that follows up with that style (that was perfectly fine for a 10 years old ages ago) and it is making again adepts.
For me this new spring of imperative languages seems more like the winter of programming.
The only "new" language that captured my interest is F#, but obviously all the go proponents will be horrified by the simplicity of type providers and all the nice "magic" things that are not easy unless you spend at least half an hour of your time to understand them.
F# is completely not an alien in any regard, it is basically an SML (a language-predecessor of OCaml/Haskell from 90s) for .Net.
I can say in the very same manner that Go is a total alien since it does not use Hindley–Milner type system or higher kinded types and throws under the bus a decade of muscle-memory coding.
