C++11 you could say that about, but I don't think any other revision is anywhere close to needing that much work to get up to speed. Ownership semantics mean t

C++11 you could say that about, but I don't think any other revision is anywhere close to needing that much work to get up to speed. Ownership semantics mean that many times there are much more elegant ways of doing almost everything. In later versions, not using the latest features is not such a big deal, you don't miss out on the same leap forward.