Why was function overloading added to C++?

Question

I have a C background. I was just wondering why was function overloading added to C++? C doesn\'t have function overloading but C++ does, what was the need for it?

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Answer 1

Using polymorphism , we can design a family of functions with same function name but with different argument list . The function would perform different operations depending on the arguments list in the function call.