他试图去剖析人类是如何与语言建立起联系，以及如何利用数学和程序设计让机器获得同样的能力。

He wanted to understand how people established a relationship to language and how, using mathematics and computer programming, machines could be equipped with an analogous skill.

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它们还可以更为严格，不过我们大部分人选择的是程序设计而非数学，因为我们不能忍受数学的单调，也不能忍受它的符号。

They can be done much more rigorously, but many of us chose programming instead of mathematics because we can't stand the tedium of mathematics nor its notation.

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它语法简洁但功能强大，而且非常优雅，具有数学的美感，同时蕴含着丰富的数学理论和程序设计技术。

With perfect design it is very simple, but powerful. And many programming technologies and mathematics theories can be found in it.

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Now, unlike high school math or in algebra Z where you call things X and Y and Z, in programming, in computer science, you're actually dealing with humans where it's useful to have a variable name that's more descriptive than X and Y and Z.

不像高中数学或者代数中,称为X和Y和，在程序设计和计算机科学里，你实际上是在和人打交道,在这里有个描述性比xyz更强的,变量名称是很重要的。

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