Two things. Programming is too broad an umbrella of a term for any meaningful generalizations to be made from it. It ranges from artisan type crafts work to en

Two things. Programming is too broad an umbrella of a term for any meaningful generalizations to be made from it. It ranges from artisan type crafts work to engineering to pure mathematical theorizing. You can't tell the people doing machine learning, signal processing or physics engines that they won't need maths. That is just pure sillyness. It is very context specific. ---Second thing--- This person misses the point of math. Its not about arithmetic, its not about calculus or group theory or combinatorics or even numbers or proofs. No. those are by products. The true point of maths is about distilling observations of past patterns into their essence and core attributes. Packaging them and then using them to lay the foundation to think more complex and less intuitive thoughts. Not unLike libraries in programming. Look at the history of the developments of mathematics - shoulders of giants and all that. Abstraction. Maths is a creative endeavour and If we had more memory and faster thinking speeds and less fallible intuitions I dare say I doubt our maths would be so 'advanced', abstract. A lot of this would be built in everyday thinking, maybe this is related to why many programmers think they don't need maths - the mathematical principles of why what they do works and its mathematical nature may not necessarily need to be made apparent in order to get by. Or perhaps this is just a reflection of the youth of the field. But I do believe though that our maths is so advanced only because we are so stupid!