On 10/3/2012 9:18 PM, Tommi wrote:
Some (not me) might argue that programming is a branch of mathematics. That aside, consistency makes it so that someone, who knows the term from previous math studies and starts learning programming, is going to have a pretty good idea what the term means even before it's been explained to him.
Sure, but if there's not an exact 1:1 correspondence, naming them the same as mathematical terms can bring along counterintuitive baggage.
There's plenty of that already with floating point 'math' !
