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smarx007today at 10:38 AM1 replyview on HN

> why do we invent these formal languages except to be more semantically precise than natural language

To be... more precise?

On a more serious note, cannot recommend enough "Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World" by Winchester. While the book talks mostly about the precision in mechanical engineering, it made me appreciate _precision_ itself to a greater degree.


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ratmicetoday at 10:44 AM

Rhetorical sentence? My point is that back-translation into natural langauge is translating into a less precise form. How is that going to help? No number of additional abstraction layers are going to solve human confusion.

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