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by danielscrubs 2202 days ago
I mean conditions exist in math already and I'd argue that there is a bigger chance qwerty is still the default keyboard layout than your Python 3 program working in 500 years.

How many of the popular languages even have formal specifications to use as a reference when the next CPU architecture comes along, or the next ABI?

The tools exist but I don't see people rushing to Modula-2 for example, which has.

It does remind me a bit of this paper "Boosting Vector Calculus with the Graphical Notation" [1], but we instead have over ten thousand only partially defined ones.

But I can agree that my view of math is a bit too rosy.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00892