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Arithmetics Operator Priority

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-17 2:06

Is it really worth it?

Because common operations like (A+B)/2 are more readable without operator priority A+B/2. I know priority exists because of linear algebra liek A*X+B*Y+C, which otherwise require A*X+(B*X)+C, but in real life no one uses linear algebra beyond simple A*X+C.

So I propose prioritary equality for all operators.

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-17 5:06

I think the tie means, "I will be so subservient as an employee that I will do even totally senseless things just because you tell me to."
He's completely right, but for some reason he says that as if it were a bad thing. The point of a hierarchical command structure is that everyone does what they are told and the entire organization operates as a whole.

That doesn't mean "sucking up to the boss", that means doing what you're paid for, even if you, possibly in your ignorance, don't see the sense in it.

That doesn't mean that there should be no upward flow of information and suggestions, quite the opposite, but when a boss says "all right, most of you seem to prefer this course of action, let us do it", everyone does it. Even if it happens to be not optimal, it is better when everyone together orderly and efficiently implement a suboptimal solution than when everyone tries to implement their own incompatible slightly better solution (and in 90% of the instances it only looks better, in their limited understanding of the whole system). Explains everything about GNU software, doesn't it, though?

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