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.

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