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> Honestly, I just need a cheat sheet for how to read the symbols using english words. Amen… however I believe the existence of such a cheat sheet would repres
by yawpitch 3y ago
> Honestly, I just need a cheat sheet for how to read the symbols using english words.
Amen… however I believe the existence of such a cheat sheet would represent an existential economic risk for PLT researchers, and they’d be incentivized to add more Greek (and, eventually, Cyrillic, then Czech, then eventually Xhosa and probably Klingon) symbols in order to retain access to funding. It’s only a matter of time before someone reinvents the paper town inside of PLT papers, if they haven’t already.*
* the above is meant to be taken facetiously
> I understand the concepts of the logical application of typing, but I don't read computer science dissertations regularly enough to make them the mapping of symbols to meaning stick.
I just wish CS (and, indeed, mathematics) was even remotely internally consistent… cross the boundaries between any two extremely narrow domains and ω can mean anything. It’s (very) vaguely consistent within PLT, but even there getting lowercase omega “stuck” in your head as having one English translation is just a pathway to pain.