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[Bruno Medeiros]

%u wrote:
> == Quote from Bruno Medeiros (brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail)'s
> article
>> Glad we kids nowadays never had to deal with horrors like that
> and COBOL. :P
> 
> Simply wait until someone hunts a bug down to writing
>     func(1.10)
> instead of
>     func(1,10)
> which went undetected because func had overloads for one float
> argument and two integer arguments.
> 
> 
"kids" nowadays use full featured IDEs with a text hover describing the 
kind of overload while the user is typing the parameters, making it 
unlikely to make that mistake. :)


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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D