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> You don't have "the manual" of programming languages. "

Well, we kinda do when you can say "this python program" the problem with a lot of math is that you can't even tell which manual to look up.





Someone not educated in programming would not know that a given text is Python source code.

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Same problem, but unlike math notation, it is MUCH clearer and even my 10 year old newphew can tell python from javascript and C.

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I would wager that a vast majority of people on the planet could not distinguish Python from JavaScript from C.

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When it says "this python" program, they dont need to, it says its python. Math notation doesn't have that clarity.

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