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krmboya on March 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Don't Computer Scientists Learn Math? (2016)

Meh, any competent programmer can understand sets..

I got the meaning presented in the article because I've practiced the notation presented, but wouldn'nt have figured it out instantly otherwise.

We have different programming language syntaxes for a reason.

olgeorge on March 24, 2017 [–]

These are not programmers though, but rather computer scientists, a big difference

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