So this article is just the author complaining that he has no practice in reading mathematics. Would you be surprised if someone who never written a computer pr

So this article is just the author complaining that he has no practice in reading mathematics. Would you be surprised if someone who never written a computer program before couldn't understand a complicated dynamic programming algorithm? Of course not, they have no practice or background! And for the record, computer programming is much more precise than mathematics. Most people here don't do mathematics, so they don't realize how many implicit identifications we make between objects which are very very different. In programs, correct types are tantamount to the success of a program. In mathematics, we will readily identify rings with topological spaces and never think twice. Moreover, we need to readily be able to change the rules by which we consider two different things to be identical on the fly. It is simply a different way of thinking that programmers aren't used to.