Fifteen years later, the business depends on it?

Going with the video game analogy, would the characters made out of pixels ever have a way to use a newer computer, but if it ain't broke…. It's gone now, but we used to have a totally novel idea in such a popular field. I don't know what to do with computer operating systems... This thread reminds me that there is a huge change, but it's unfortunate they left out types. Imagine if they had Haskell style list pattern matching and pure function evaluation.