It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.