[anon291]

> In contrast, that last paragraph of yours looks like you were carrying around a bowl full of random jargon, tripped, and spilled it all over your keyboard.

It's scary that this sort of criticism is considered appropriate on hacker news, which is supposedly a forum for professional software developers. Very sad. Everything I mentioned should be taught in 2nd or 3rd year computer science course (namely, everything I mentioned was about type systems, which is a standard topic most university programs will cover)

[ablob]

I agree. I find it especially odd, that people think that programming and computer science is a complex topic that takes years to learn and master, but complain about the appearance of jargon with an appeal to "ease of use".

If the concepts are the hard part to learn, then operators and technical speech are the least of your worries, but a mandatory part on the path to acquiring the art. The most important thing math has shown me, is that notation and precision of speech take a huge part in making things clear. Yet people get heart attacks when this is applied to informatics.