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		hansvm on Nov 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathem... Programming is <<shudder>> _applied_ mathematics.

Turing_Machine on Nov 5, 2021 | [–]

Nah. Programming is its own thing. Math is lovely and all, but programming isn't applied mathematics any more than playing the cello is applied physics.

analog31 on Nov 5, 2021 | | [–]

Sadly as a good physicist and terrible cellist I have to agree.

randomdata on Nov 5, 2021 | [–]

The execution of the code is applied mathematics. The creation of the code is doing mathematics.

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