Fortran is a case of a language that has grown below the trend of the industry. There are probably more active Fortran projects and developer now than at any point in history. But it became a smaller piece of the much larger pie so people think it's "dead".

Same goes with Perl - probably more Perl developers than at its heyday in the 90s but a smaller chunk of the overall picture. Measure by noise levels and anything that doesn't explode seems to be dying.