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Warp wrote:
> The context was really a multilined program source code, not a
> mathematical formula, which your line really is.
>
> Mathematical formulae can often be written compactly because they
> a) aren't really program code, and b) there's an established syntax
> to write it compactly.
Perhaps you forget, the very word "computer" means "device for
performing mathematical calculations". ;-)
Having programmed with Haskell for a while now, I would contest the
"programs aren't mathematics" assertion. Having played with mathematics
for even longer, I would contest the "established syntax" assertion too!
[Rather, there are several incompatible and variously ambiguous syntaxes
for writing any particular mathematical construct...]
Regardless, I would assert that how "readable" something is depends on
how well it maps to your underlying mental processes - which is rather
independant of the compactness or otherwise of the code. ;-)
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