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Absolutely not. Programming is like, using mathematical structure to instruct a computer. But many domains don't need you to use mathematics to instruct the c
by urthor 5y ago
Absolutely not.
Programming is like, using mathematical structure to instruct a computer.
But many domains don't need you to use mathematics to instruct the computer. Natural language processing, like a search bar, GUI, .
Medicine, legal, so many other trades don't need mathematical instruction of a computer.
They just need not-totally-useless operation of it, through
- hnfong 5y agoEither "programming" is not using "mathematical structure" to instruct a computer, OR printf("Hello world\n"); is a "mathematical structure", OR it is not programming. Which one?
- urthor 5y agoI mean printf is a mathematical structure, you're taking a bunch of bits, interpreting them as unicode or somesuch, and writing it to a log file. I'm saying that "because" you don't need operations defined mathematically, you can use whatever human computer interface.