Originally posted by AnonymousCoward
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But you really don't care much for how easy your code is for others to read do you? I've seen several examples of statisticians used to R but not C-languages, and even Java programmers not understanding C/C++ syntax properly, and I really don't think designing a language around only the needs of those who've mastered it makes sense. Plonoma's complaint about lack of binary literals is a good if not very important example: not everyone likes to think about binary flags using hexadecimal syntax. And what about nuances like
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uint64_t x = (0x12345678 << 32) + 0x9ABCDEF0;
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