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Re:How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math by Dn_Ab on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @11:44PM (#6730574)
> In a programming context if you today reduce all your variable names to single latin letters and all your function names to single greek letters, you will be widely mocked and reviled.

Serious question. What do you think is the general impression of APL programmers? =)

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Re:How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math by jacques_chester on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @11:50PM (#6730591)
I thought about mentioning APL, but sometimes the correctness of an argument is best served by inexactitude.

I already compromised by adding "today" and "almost all" as qualifiers.

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