Comment by pvg

The additions and improvements are great but I think we're developing a kind of shared 'Modern X' fallacy. Modern Perl, Modern C++, Modern PHP, Modern Java, etc. The 'modern' facilities and the styles and efficiencies they enable are invariably terrific but you can't comfortably and effectively make use of them without having to know the bulk all the non-modern stuff. Which ends up limiting the appeal to the sorts of people who were prepared to put up with pre-modern to begin with.