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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by flohofwoe on Sunday July 09, 2023 @10:17AM (#36654623)
It's important for reading other people's code. When I see a function call then I know that "anything" can happen inside that function, so I better investigate. For anything that's not a function call it is obvious what happens under the hood.

In languages like C++ I potentially need to check every operator if it is overloaded, and find the place where that happens (I think I haven't seen any IDE support to help with 'resolving' overloaded operators, but maybe that has improved in the meantime).

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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by creata on Sunday July 09, 2023 @07:40PM (#36660236)
> I think I haven't seen any IDE support to help with 'resolving' overloaded operators

Are you talking about the ability to hover over an operator to find out which function it's calling? I think most IDEs can do that.

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