I’m very curious
when a mathematician calls an equation or a method to solve it beautiful, what do you think they’re referring to?
when I doodle lambda calculus in my little notebook and line up all the transformations just so, do you imagine I’m doing it for any reason other than because it looks and feels aesthetically nice? my brain likes it even though it’s not useful.
when I write my Haskell like an equation on a whiteboard and my lisp like a sentence, what do you imagine I’m doing?
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