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> why do we invent these formal languages except to be more semantically precise than natural language To be... more precise? On a more serious note, cannot r
by smarx007 9mo ago
> why do we invent these formal languages except to be more semantically precise than natural language
To be... more precise?
On a more serious note, cannot recommend enough "Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World" by Winchester. While the book talks mostly about the precision in mechanical engineering, it made me appreciate _precision_ itself to a greater degree.
- ratmice 9mo agoRhetorical sentence? My point is that back-translation into natural langauge is translating into a less precise form. How is that going to help? No number of additional abstraction layers are going to solve human confusion.
- smarx007 9mo agoOh well, that flew over my head. You are right.