[WildUtah]

>>the best programmers I know use languages that are 20 to 30 years old as their main weapon of choice (C/C++ for example).

C is 40 years old and C++ is 32 years old. (Visual Basic is 20-30 years old, though.)

[shin_lao]

Well if you want to be pedantic, C++ is actually twenty eight years old (1983), but as the language evolved a lot, modern C++ is probably less than ten years old. It depends on what you can a language and what you call a dialect.

C is indeed almost forty years old.

[swah]

I've only recently found out that by "Modern C++" most people mean the way to write C++ as exposed by Alexandrescu's book on Generic Programming - is that what you mean too?