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Re:Linux Rust Support by zerr on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:15AM (#27759054)
Besides, if the prose would have been preferable over symbols, we'd be writing e.g. "an unknown number of apples summed up with an unknown number of pears equals to one hundred entities" instead of "x + y = 100" in math classes :)
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Re:Linux Rust Support by MaxBarraclough on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:46AM (#27759247)
That's a caricature. We sometimes use words for summation, e.g. Python's sum and fsum functions. I do wonder though if people had to write like that before the development of modern mathematical syntax. Even the '=' symbol is relatively young. Wikipedia tells me it was invented in 1557.

SQL is another 'wordy' language. There are many, many things wrong with the SQL language, but I wouldn't say its wordiness is one of them.

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