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Mathematics is shit

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-09 1:19

Just look at these ugly swatches of code:
http://www.cse.unt.edu/~idl99/Proceedings/ahn/img50.gif
http://www.cse.unt.edu/~idl99/Proceedings/ahn/node8.html

That is what you get, when programming immitates math. Even Java and PHP looks beautiful compared to that. Mathematics should be banned as a harmful and obfuscated teaching.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-09 2:40

>>9
In order to understand what the symbols mean you have to have the meaning first.

Words and symbols are abstract, irrelevant objects. It's useless to create a pointer to something if you can't create that concept in your language. What was it in SICP? You can't make arrays of arrays in Basic or Fortran or something because they aren't closed?

That's the ultimate problem: A symbol is MEANINGLESS without MEANING.

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