Comment on Open thread, Nov. 3 - Nov. 9, 2014

Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:35:04 GMT

I find that often this sort of writing -- technical-ish, e.g. trying to describe a flowchart or a boolean circuit in casual text, as you see in law or documentation -- has various sorts of ambiguities (e.g. issues with associativity and quantifiers) that would be obvious if you tried to transcribe it into code.

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