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Maybe because we are lazy, and we think that abbreviations save time/energy, which is obviously a wrong assumption.
by couac 13y ago
Maybe because we are lazy, and we think that abbreviations save time/energy, which is obviously a wrong assumption.
- kazagistar 13y agoAgain, the "obviousness" cuts both ways. In other words, it is obvious to mathematicians that concise symbols are better, and it is obvious to programmers that verbose strings are better, and both have a lot of experience backing their claims... if anything, math has more. So, I think the real question is how do we quantify and measure it? How do we gather the formal and empirical data needed to resolve this issue?