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Heh. No sarcasm at all in my comment! (but I like to write in an over the top way...) Terse notation has nothing to do with manual handwriting. Modern math b
by enriquto 3y ago
Heh. No sarcasm at all in my comment! (but I like to write in an over the top way...)
Terse notation has nothing to do with manual handwriting. Modern math books and articles are still written by computer using a very terse symbolic notation, which has been developed during the last six centuries. Originally, the symbols +, = were shorthand abbreviations of Latin words.
I guess computer scientists want to re-invent everything from scratch. How long will they need to evolve from "LinearAlgebra.matrixVectorProduct(,)" to the empty string? I hope it's less than six centuries!
- 9dev 3y agoSpoken like someone who doesn’t need or care to cooperate with others on the same piece of code, doesn’t work with junior developers, and/or works on small code bases or scientific code exclusively. Mathematicians seem to miss the difference between math and code quite often. The former provides the solution to a well-understood problem in a straightforward manner. The latter transports an abstract concept, a plan, a state of thought to the reader. A neat side effect is making computers go beep. In that context, being as clear as possible is really important.