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Mathematics even worse than Software Engineering because lay practitioner can miss significance of question. If you have link to question, would appreciate. Just out of curiosity to see if I would realize why question is interesting. That in itself is a skill.


To be fair the question was kind of naive, about language, but T. Tao bother to answer and made my day. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/206544/why-do-people-use-...


Thank you for responding. Assuaged my curiosity :)




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