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I'm surprised that every comment so far is about operator overloading. All I thought after reading this is: saying what words mean up front sure is tedious and

• throwaway894345 6y ago
  Especially to get to the conclusion which is basically “I hope Java gets operator overloading” without much actual support for that position. The one interesting bit of support they gave was that it’s hard to identify the quadratic formula on BugIntegers without operator overloading and that this unfamiliarity might yield bugs, but I think the inverse is true. Math notation tends to be (IMO, obviously) horrible—it’s optimized for quickly scrawling on a blackboard and for elitist gatekeeping, not for understanding or maintenance. At least it violates many of the software industry’s rules about what constitutes readability, approachability, and maintainability.