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If they're not tools, then what are they? Where do you draw the line?
by voltagex_ 8y ago
If they're not tools, then what are they? Where do you draw the line?
- aswanson 8y agoMental problem solving paradigms.
- ken 8y agoThey're languages, or notations. Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation there's different schools of thought on what's easiest to read, while the fundamentals are essentially the same. Calculus is a tool, but how we write it is just the notation. Similarly, computer programming (or perhaps a subfield like functional programming) is the tool, and a particular language is just the notation for writing it down.