Very few languages throw away syntax or features. Python 3 is one that tried, and it took almost a decade for people to switch. C++ famously clings on to old

Very few languages throw away syntax or features. Python 3 is one that tried, and it took almost a decade for people to switch. C++ famously clings on to old features for a long as possible. Only a tiny amount of things have ever been removed from the language such as trigraphs.