It might be true but it is a shallow truth if so. 100% of engineers need to learn elementary algebra even if only 25% of engineers "use" it, for a variety of st

It might be true but it is a shallow truth if so. 100% of engineers need to learn elementary algebra even if only 25% of engineers "use" it, for a variety of strong reasons. Programming is a more interesting issue. If this blog had argued that computer science should be marginalized within software engineering then he might have found something to say (but which has already been said many times by others).