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Fascinating questions.

I am an applied mathematicians by educational background, while I am working more and more as a developer in my day-to-day job.

The answer that my personal experience gives to these questions is that programming has helped me a lot with precision and clarity. For me it probably boils down to the fact that a compiler is much more unforgiving than my own brain.




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