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boxed on Oct 6, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should I choose Ada, SPARK, or Rust over C/C++? (2...

It's the exact same thing except in Python the community largely has taste. In C++ `cout >> "foo"` exists in the standard library.

quotemstr on Oct 6, 2025 [–]

I love how among a certain set the word "taste" has become an all-purpose substitute for having an argument or making a case. It basically means "I have more social media follows than you do, so I'm right"

boxed on Oct 7, 2025 | [–]

I believe the C++ community as a whole are quite convinced that overloading >> for stdout was a mistake.

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