Comment by BlackFingolfin

Comment by BlackFingolfin an hour ago

I find it strange to compare "math" with one programming language. Mathematics is a huge and diverse field, with many subcommunities and hence also differing notation.

Your rant would be akin to this if the sides are reversed: "It's surprising how many different ways there are to describe the same thing. Eg: see all the notations for dictionaries (hash tables? associative arrays? maps?) or lists (vectors? arrays?).

You don't have "the manual" of programming languages. "

segfaultex an hour ago

Not the original commenter, but I 100% agree that it's weird we have so many ways to describe dictionaries/hash tables/maps/etc. and lists.

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worthless-trash 36 minutes ago

> You don't have "the manual" of programming languages. "

Well, we kinda do when you can say "this python program" the problem with a lot of math is that you can't even tell which manual to look up.

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