It depends heavily on the programming domain. There was a reddit thread recently [0] describing how someone spent a bunch of time reinventing matrix multiplicat

It depends heavily on the programming domain. There was a reddit thread recently [0] describing how someone spent a bunch of time reinventing matrix multiplication. Certainly with some more background in math (and maybe MATLAB in particular) they could have saved a bunch of time. Surely computer science research problems require some rigorous proofs and applications of theory. But your general web app or command line utility for wrangling data? Might not make much of a difference. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/matlab/comments/fbhq9c/a_friend_of_mine_used_a_lot_of_matlab_while/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x https://www.reddit.com/r/matlab/comments/fbhq9c/a_friend_of_...