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« on: May 24, 2007, 07:44:40 AM »
The recent thread about Ruby and some aspects of it's coding style reminded me of this fascinating paper from Bjarne Stroustrup on generalizing the operator overloading functionally currently offered by C++.
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Bjarne Stroustrup: Marketing hype as a substitute for technical argument. Thoughtless adherence to dogma. Pride in ignorance.
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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2007, 09:26:57 AM »
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if you're not a c++ pro you might not get that this is an april fools day joke.
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« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2007, 12:36:52 PM »
Yeah it starts off very convincingly. I'd been told it was an April Fools before reading it, I wonder how long I would have been fooled for otherwise embarassed

P.S. my smilie at the end holds the url to Bjarne's webpage which acknowledges the joke.
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