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People have always told me the best programmers/computer scientists are also great mathematicians and this seems to support that. Esp thinking about Turing, Von

by upmind 2y ago

People have always told me the best programmers/computer scientists are also great mathematicians and this seems to support that. Esp thinking about Turing, Von Neumann and Knuth

mrbungie 2y ago
Academic/theorical computer scientists, totally. But pragmatic programmers / software engineers, try reading the average PhD's python code. Usually it is a mess. Knuth may be an exception, rather than the rule.
- Kinrany 2y ago
  Average PhDs are by definition not the best though?