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Did you not want to learn to write, did you hold the writing courses had nothing to teach you, or are were you holding that courses requiring writing had bad ti
by Terretta 4y ago
Did you not want to learn to write, did you hold the writing courses had nothing to teach you, or are were you holding that courses requiring writing had bad time ROI (return on time investment)?
As co-founder and CTO of any number of tech companies, I've observed engineers (programmers) with broad humanities (history and language related, mostly) education tend to grok business narratives then architect and write better software: coherent systems expressed concisely. Now I look for history major with comp sci minor, or English and linear algebra, or other self-selected humanities + STEM pairings.
I'd hazard there's some relationship in how the mind is applied in common between domain driven design in service of business narrative and the sweeping cause and effect of history, or between software architecture and well organized long-form writing.
- WalterBright 4y agoYou can decide for yourself if my writing is adequate: https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/index.html https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/index.html Consider that the people I know who learned math, science and engineering without going to university hovers around zero. I've also known degree'd engineers who were so hopelessly inept I suspected that they cheated their way through. Their careers didn't go well. I once knew an MIT graduate who thought a coordinate system conversion matrix was black magic (I wrote it to convert screen graphics to the printer's idea of a page). I was floored. Howinell did he get through MIT?