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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:40:34 -0400
Subject: Re: code review
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On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:18:09 -0400, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
> Sheesh guys. Don't go hunting through the most obscure corners of
> mathematics for examples of computer scientists who have invented their
> own maths notation. (Which, by your own admission, is under-specified and
> therefore incomplete.) Who uses Hehner's "Unified Algebra" notation?
> Apart from Hehner, if he even uses it himself.

I didn't hunt, I was taught it in university.

-- Devin

(Of course, it shouldn't be hard to guess who the professor was :)