Why are C, C++, and LISP so prevalent in embedded devices and robots?

Question

It seems that the software language skills most sought for embedded devices and robots are C, C++, and LISP. Why haven\'t more recent languages made inroads into these applicat

Answer 1

You can do robotics with Java on the Mindstorm robots and MS has a push for doing robotics, but to a large extent C/C++ is used due to limited resources, and LISP is used for AI because for a long time this was an area of research and researchers were the main users of LISP, so they used the language they knew.

This is the same reason why FORTRAN is so prevalent in physics, for example, people use the language they know and when the project becomes commercial, unless you want to rewrite it from scratch, you keep the original code.