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This is such a lovely parable! Still, I wonder what Dijkstra meant with the sentence > true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point. I would have expec
by reframer 3y ago
This is such a lovely parable! Still, I wonder what Dijkstra meant with the sentence
> true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point.
I would have expected mathematicians to appreciate the nice symmetry of the proposed solution and am curious about the other point of view.
- virtualwhys 3y agoPresumably true mathematicians operate exclusively in the realm of theory and can't understand (the point of) practical implementations, which programmers tend to enjoy when the solution is elegant.