[ajross]

That's a terrible straw man. Everything changes. Javascript is morphing into this weird "Coffee" thing before our eyes. Python pushed a completely new language and is currently supporting two of them. Even python 2.6 looks absolutely nothing like 2.0. People fled whole-hog from perl and python to ruby (another hardly static language) a few years ago, and most of those same people are now retraining their brains on that JavaCoffee thing I mentioned.

C++? Yeah, brand new version out with whole new metaphors (An... rvalue reference?! And what is that -> operator doing there?).

If you want compatibility, you have it. 15 year old perl scripts run fine on 5.14. If you want the community to not invent new stuff... dig yourself a hole I guess.