I've been programming in C/C++ for 15+ years and I enjoy it. Personally I think the C++11 extensions are not useful and could bloat/kill the language. It feel

I've been programming in C/C++ for 15+ years and I enjoy it. Personally I think the C++11 extensions are not useful and could bloat/kill the language. It feels like they are trying to make it a scripting language, which isn't why people use C++. However, I recently started using Python and I absolutely love it. Using python, I can usually whip up a proof of concept within minutes because things just work. I wrote a OCR program using a mix of OpenCV and Tesseract in Python, and I was able to get a proof of concept up in about an hour. Of course, the performance isn't nearly what I want it to be (on the order of seconds, which is too slow for my application), but the fact I could get something working so quickly is why I love Python so much.