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Would you guys consider Maths a programming language?

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    Isnt every programming langauge an abstracted version of maths. Every operation, control flow, looping and memory cell is controlled using maths.
  • 0
    Not really, well it depends.

    The line gets really blurry. If you forget about logic and set theory, and consider each set of axioms as a programming language then: yes, it maybe be consider a programming language.
    But if you take logic or set theory, it cannot be a programming language. They are interdependent, and sometimes outright contradictory.

    Programming languages must be non-contradictory. Maths doesn't.
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    Programming languages also deal only with finite things, maths deals with all other types of abstractions.
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    I guess you could say every programming language is math but I don't think it works the other way around.
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    No, you couldn't possibly parse it because of the inherent ambiguities in interpreting math. It's not defined strictly enough, even though attempts have been made
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    @JBSnorro out right unreconcilable contradictions, like the continum hypothesis.
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    @grublle irreconcilable
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    All code is just discrete math underneath. Sometimes it amazes me how far away from math code is because when you really consider the physical processing the processor is doing on the machine code it's crazy. Especially languages like Python or ruby that are interpreted, underneath there's some machine code that's executing simple mathematical operations . Math itself isn't really a language of programming because programming and computers use data structures and crazy stuff to make all the math actually appear as tangible "things" on the screen. But on the other hand machine code and even to some degree assembly litterally is just math instructions and it has liittle no understanding of what it's doing. It's 50/59
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