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Spoken like someone who doesn’t need or care to cooperate with others on the same piece of code, doesn’t work with junior developers, and/or works on small code bases or scientific code exclusively.

Mathematicians seem to miss the difference between math and code quite often. The former provides the solution to a well-understood problem in a straightforward manner. The latter transports an abstract concept, a plan, a state of thought to the reader. A neat side effect is making computers go beep. In that context, being as clear as possible is really important.



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