In C++ operator overloading was used by the standard library to obscure everything. I can see why Java took the direction that it did. But, on the other hand,

In C++ operator overloading was used by the standard library to obscure everything. I can see why Java took the direction that it did. But, on the other hand, we've learned from those mistakes and pretty much any new language that has operating overloading it's used both appropriately and sparingly (C#, Python, etc). It's one of those things that as a developer you'd never use yourself but when you need them they're extremely handy. I'd loved doing matrix math in C++ -- I could translate complex mathematical expressions directly into code with almost no translation.