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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 2:05

>>5
treat it as a natural language filled with symbols
There is no fucking language, it's an impenetrable stream of symbols whiсh blur into a single opaque black square, when you state at them for enough time.

It's something that is meant to communicate to people rather than machines
Doubt anyone, except author, could read this condensed pile of hebrew symbols.

but it is also supposed to be definitive, unambiguous, and easy to manipulate symbolically.
Why wont they use Lisp instead of math? Lisp is definitive, unambiguous and pretty easy to manipulate.

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