Is this a good time to start learning python?

[Konstantin Veretennicov]

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>
> > >  Backward compatibility is important.   C++ could break all ties with
> C
> > >  to "clean up" as well, but it would be a braindead move that would
> > >  break existing code bases upon upgrade.
> >
> > C++ is not C. No one "upgrades" from C to C++.
>
> You misunderstand.  C++ has a lot of "warts" to maintain backwards
> compatibility with C.  The standards committee could eliminate these
> warts to make the language "cleaner", but it would break a lot of
> systems.
>

Didn't C++ "break" all C programs that happened to use "class" for
identifier? :)

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