> Ada, the fast type-safe compiled language (French)? Largely dead in the market.

Well, Ada was the language of choice of the US DoD from 1983 to about 1994. And it's only dead if you ignore the millions of code lines (old and new) produced in aerospace and defence.

> The Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon family, ... Largely dead.

Well, Pascal and it's decendants (Delphi, etc.) are still in wide use with good tool support; obviously not in the author's field of sight here either.

> Nokia's elegant, long-life, feature-rich devices ...

Sunk by an American u-boat in the prime of its life.

Asians or Europeans are also behind many so-called American inventions. Anyway, I don't understand what the author is trying to get at.