RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117436268385215562
This tale - it's long, read it! - reminds me why I try to minimize my time programming. I'm not sure why math seems so much easier to me, but one reason is that I don't like to remember precise syntax: I don't like it when the world blows up if I forget a comma or something.
John Carlos Baez
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