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> Syntax rigour has almost nothing to do with correctness.

Yes, that's the point. You did miss it.




And yet I didn’t miss it. I insist.

You need more rigour to prove let’s say Beppo Levy theorem than writing a moderately complex piece of software.

Yet you can write it in crappy English, the medium not being the target goal, the ideation process even poorly transcribed in English needs to be perfectly rigorous. Otherwise, you proved nothing.


I'm pretty sure the two of you are working from different definitions of the word "rigorous" here.

(Which, given the topic of conversation here, is somewhat ironic.)


I take it broadly as nothing was clearly defined. :)




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