And let's admit it, it shows!

A few tens of million years later he (or she) tried Eiffel. Now he is able to create a world that is safer for all of us. It's going to take a while, 45 million years of work doesn't just take 25 year years to move over. Thankfully Eiffel can interop with other languages so that helps God along in making that sensible switch all those years ago.