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The fact you think programming is about numbers shows you have no idea what programming is. The fact is, programming at a high level means analyzing thousands

• EliRivers 3y ago
  Perhaps I should reword my original comment. Here's the same meaning, expressed differently: "Software engineers often have an unjustified belief that they are intuitive experts in fields in which they have no training or experience." Including, very frequently, understanding written text.
• philipswood 3y ago
  He didn't say programming is about numbers. His claim was that programming is a simple kind of thinking. He gives two representative examples: * The consideration of sorting algorithms (which in all fairness _is_ a staple in teaching algorithms), and * The use of simple logic - such is representative of programming language specs. I'd say that this is a fair summary - real life tends to be a lot more complicated that the problems faced by most programmers. Even more brutally: he is aiming quite high, a lot of programming is the minor stitching together of APIs without making too big of a mess. Few programmers ever seriously actually need to analyse thousands of dimensions of information - and I'd say that it is a safe bet that the ones who do are probably using numbers. To "We are literally expert at becoming experts.", I'd reply with https://xkcd.com/1112/ https://xkcd.com/1112/