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I've personally written code that was immensely difficult to read. Branchless stuff with single letter variables. Even though I commented it thoroughly, its rid
by netizen-936824 5y ago
I've personally written code that was immensely difficult to read. Branchless stuff with single letter variables. Even though I commented it thoroughly, its ridiculously difficult to read and modify.
This was a good lesson for me, I won't do that again and I'm far more verbose now.
My thinking is that maybe math should learn from things like that as well, perhaps expanding equations and being more verbose within the equation instead of an explanation next to it would make maths more accessible to a broader audience.
- rq1 5y agoAfter developing equations through 100 lines and few pages or blackboards, you’ll see that dropping letters is inevitable. You shouldn’t really read the equations before understanding what they are about. They are usually written down to get rid of ambiguities of the natural language.