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Programming is easier because people care about readability! At least to a much greater extent than in math A lot of people are bad at math, but decent program
by adam_arthur 6y ago
Programming is easier because people care about readability! At least to a much greater extent than in math
A lot of people are bad at math, but decent programmers. Yet, programming is basically just composing expressions the same as you would in math? Why the disparity?
- username90 6y agoMost programs you write are very concrete. Concrete programs can have concrete variable names. Then the more you abstract things the less variable names matter. If you create a general purpose list calling its content type "item" or "x" are both equally readable since "item" doesn't say anything that "x" doesn't. Now math, the entire subject of math is just a bunch of abstractions. Now there are a lot of concrete applications of math, but math itself isn't concrete.