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How many mathematicians can do long division? Perhaps we are crippled by our tools and the high level of abstraction from the basics we work at.
by yters 7y ago
How many mathematicians can do long division? Perhaps we are crippled by our tools and the high level of abstraction from the basics we work at.
- jcranberry 7y agoI think fizzbuzz-level logic is so simple it's not really abstracted away when programming. No matter how many nice libraries you have you can't avoid writing loops and if checks.
- travisjungroth 7y agoThe difference here is I think Fizzbuzz is at an abstraction level that if you’re above it, you’re not actually programming. “I’m a mathematician but I never do long division” -> totes believable. “I’m a programmer but I never use for loops or conditional statements” -> uhhhhh
- yters 7y agoPerhaps, but it seems like a lot of modern programming consists of plugging together frameworks, filling out configs, and so on. Even the traditional for loops and conditionals are abstracted away with streams and filters, hiding the simple counting math involved.
- synthc 7y agoI would want to filter out candidates who can only plug frameworks together: all frameworks have their limitations and I would want someone who can work around these.