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Gerald Jay Sussman: The Role of Programming (Dan Friedman's 60th Birthday)
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Gerald Jay Sussman speaks at Dan Friedman's 60th birthday celebration about how programming helps formulate and clarify ideas. He argues that ambiguous mathematical notation hinders understanding.
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Cited for Sussman's argument that programs make ideas precise in a way standard math notation does not.
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> But humans dislike, and much prefer infix with its complicated operator precedences Depends on what you're writing; Gerald Jay Sussman claims that edge cases in mathematical notation (and corner-cutting of sorts in what is written) makes physics quite hard to grasp in "The role of programming" [1]; hence the Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics book, which includes many Scheme programs which explicate everything. [1] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I think he says that in every talk he gives. [LINK] , [VIDEO] , [LINK] , etc. There's a 2002 paper where he uses the term: [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Certainly Gerry Sussman's frustrations with ambiguous notation were a big reason for his decision to create SICM! [VIDEO]
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