Not sure why you don't like the new additions. In general you don't have to use them if you don't want to. I don't really disagree with you. That said, it's a

Not sure why you don't like the new additions. In general you don't have to use them if you don't want to. I don't really disagree with you. That said, it's a little bit of an opt-out, in the same sense that arguing that C++ is just as clean as C because "you can avoid all the ugly weird parts if you really try" is something of an opt-out. (I'm not trying to comment on the relative merits of C++ and C (edit: or, for that matter, on Java <1.5 vs. Java >=1.5), so much as on the relative levels of simplicity of the two languages, just to make certain that's clear).