Actually it does make it real. It may not be popular or modern or the best tool for solving a particular task, but it isn't any less real than the real languages: C, C++, Java, Objective-C, C#, Python, Ruby, JavaScript. Even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck is a real language - it sure is restrictive and impossibly hard to use for nearly all projects. Let's not use the word 'real' in this discussion. It seems unnecessary and quite frankly, fanboy-ish