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The article itself is interesting, but what really caught my eye was the 5 flaming comments it received. Bitter much, guys?
by LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
The article itself is interesting, but what really caught my eye was the 5 flaming comments it received. Bitter much, guys?
- timr 18y agoWell, I generally agree with the premise of the article (math notation sucks), but I also agree with the five flaming comments -- his example was bad. In particular, the "optimized" code was atrociously unreadable. It may have used fewer lines, but those lines were so packed with cleverness that they took more work to understand than the original notation. The first version of the code was okay, but probably not much easier to understand than the original math. There are some very bad examples of mathematical notation out there, but this wasn't really one of them.