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Notation and terminology? Sure, some explanations and mechanical manipulations are elided in mathematics because with context they're clear.

Rigor? Ha, you have got to be kidding me. Math is rigorous to a fault. Typical computer programming has no rigor whatsoever in comparison. A rigid syntax is not rigor. Syntax, in turn, is certainly not the difficult part of developing software.




The commenter is quite rigorous about what parts of math are done with rigor and which parts are not.




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