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		cabalamat on May 21, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ending the Era of Patronizing Language Design > Multiple inheritance and operator overloading aren't bad, but at the time Java was designed, nobody had any idea how to use them properly. Really? I was coding C++ using multiple inheritance and operator overloading around then, and AFAICT was using them properly.

jmillikin on May 21, 2010 [–]

Sorry; I meant language designers didn't know how to use them. C++ is a perfect example of operator overloading gone horribly wrong.

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