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Re:Why Don't Computer Scientists Learn Math? (2016) by krmboya on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:55PM (#13952152)
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.

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Re:Why Don't Computer Scientists Learn Math? (2016) by olgeorge on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:15PM (#13953010)
These are not programmers though, but rather computer scientists, a big difference
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