[strictusername]

Right, but C++ is evil, remember? It's better to make your own language from the ground up than using something that thousands of people have worked on over decades.

[beart]

A new language can take all the lessons of a previous one without being locked into backward compatability. It doesn't have to start from zero.

[rileymat2]

Problematically, without being backwards compatible, it kind of does start from 0.