On Apr 25, 2:03 pm, Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's how the Java designers were thinking as well: If MI is > > allowed, programmers will suddenly get an irresistible urge to use > > MI to write unmaintainable spaghetti code. So let's disallow MI > > for the sake of common good. > > Argumenting like that, *all* programming languages had to be > outlawed. 8) James Gosling, grossed by C++ iostreams, also used this argument to disallow operator overloading in Java (except for the String class). That is why Python has NumPy and Java does not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list