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CmonDev on March 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: I don't want to be a Real Programmer

Are you aware that programming itself is a branch of mathematics? Don't put things on pedestal. "The greatest achievement that a mathematician can aspire to is helping to improve software, for even our minds are software."

chriswarbo on March 19, 2014 [–]

Erm, yes? That was exactly my point, hence my contrast of two completely opposite viewpoints and the claim that it's relative.

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