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From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Operator overloading considered harmful
Summary: Poor programmers are poor programmers in any language.
Message-ID: <582@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 17:21:20 GMT
References: <240@vsi1.UUCP>
Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
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     A programmer can go crazy with #defines already.  While C++
operator overloading can be a temptation for a bad programmer to
redesign the language, that is not a sufficient reason to
eliminate overloading.  There are such temptations in every
language, but that doesn't make a convincing argument for going
back to writing our programs in binary.

     Bad programmers write bad programs, no matter what language
you give them.  Their failings are not cause for the rest of us to
give up a useful tool.

-- 
David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon	PhoneNet:  (202) 694-6900
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