lots of physicists commenting on the article, getting annoyed that the author doesn't dig calculus. As a physicist (turned programmer turned physicist again) I

lots of physicists commenting on the article, getting annoyed that the author doesn't dig calculus. As a physicist (turned programmer turned physicist again) I'd just like to say that I quite like the idea of a liberal arts mathematics course - I would be much better at it if I had an overview of the field, and thus knew where to look for my solutions (like I do when debugging a program under X environment or framework).