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The modern language of mathematics is composed of lexicons from several different written languages:

Greek, Roman, Arabic, Hebrew and possibly a few others.

There is one point often overlooked regarding comparisons of programming and human languages - I think that programming languages should be much simpler than human languages, since the target is a dumb computer as opposed to an articulate human.



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