> The primary advantage of a new programming language is that there is no legacy code to be compatible with. Depends a lot on what you are doing. Clojure and

> The primary advantage of a new programming language is that there is no legacy code to be compatible with. Depends a lot on what you are doing. Clojure and Scala were new languages, but they had a lot of legacy code to stay compatible with. C++ falls in a similar camp.