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Anytime I hear about literate programming I think about how mathematicians worked for centuries to encode math symbolically. If you look at the ancient math tex
by johnwatson11218 10y ago
Anytime I hear about literate programming I think about how mathematicians worked for centuries to encode math symbolically. If you look at the ancient math texts it was all word problems and it was just awful.
One of the coolest things about math is how the symbolic representation of the problem allows your mind to work out solutions with less effort.
I think the future of programming looks more like math than english.
- dllthomas 10y agoLet's look at some actual math. The first article from the most recent issue of the first journal listed on the AMS page is here: http://www.ams.org/journals/ecgd/2016-20-01/S1088-4173-2016-00288-5/S1088-4173-2016-00288-5.pdf http://www.ams.org/journals/ecgd/2016-20-01/S1088-4173-2016-... To me that looks like quite a bit of English, organized for humans. It is true that there are also quite a few symbols, but I contend it looks a whole lot more like the CWEB implementation of wc than it does like the C implementation.