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Programming Is Not Math (2014) (sarahmei.com)
3 points by nikatwork on Nov 18, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



TL;DR: Programming is language, not math.

And she's right. We even call them programming languages.


I've been doing this a long time and the only maths I've ever needed was trig, matrices like once and maybe a touch of probability. I took a unit each of symbolic logic and cog psych and those have been infinitely more useful.

Then again I'm about to learn Haskell so maybe I'll change my tune.




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