Immediate reaction to this is: "Yeah but math is deliberately abstract and divorced from what it may or may not represent, programming languages are largely about making the text you write closer to and less divorced from what it represents. Very different."https://twitter.com/wcrichton/status/1063819276790853632 …
"Don't be tied to meaning" seems like an anti-goal. A name can have a clear meaning while being abstract. For example, "tape machine" would be a better name than "Turing machine" since "Turing" doesn't tell us anything.
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'"Don't be tied to meaning" seems like an anti-goal' Why? That isn't self evident. Like writing an abstraction in code that is too coupled to the first thing or two you use it for. Some pure math concepts should be able to float from meaning to meaning freely.
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I also rather think tape machine is an example in my argument's favour. Related to real objects and a specific interpretation that the abstract concept doesn't need to have anything to do with.
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