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Exactly, it has been refined over millennia.

• creata 6y ago
  Right, and it's important to remember that mathematics is sharply optimized for human understanding, whereas programming languages strike a careful compromise between human understanding and efficient execution by machines. I don't think anyone could seriously argue that programming languages are "more expressive" than mathematical notation, which has the powers of ambiguity and hand-drawn graphics.
  • Koshkin 6y ago
    You are not wrong. Replace 'efficient execution by machines' with 'efficient processing by a compiler' and you will be even more correct.