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by dragonwriter 3613 days ago
> If you had never seen +,-,%,• before, simple math statements would be inscrutable. But, once you take the (short) time to learn them you can express things much better than if you had to write `add`, `subtract`, etc everywhere.

A point that is particularly poignant to anyone who has ever dealt with code using custom numeric types in a language that doesn't let you define custom operators (or overload operators).