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The other thing I don't like about this framing is the implicit false dichotomy. The best programmers I've met often have strong language and math skills. Poet
by karmakaze 1y ago
The other thing I don't like about this framing is the implicit false dichotomy. The best programmers I've met often have strong language and math skills.
Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing. Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. (Henri Poincaré)
It's basically being good at "naming things", in particular abstractions.
- pier25 1y ago"naming things" is really about "recognizing things" and/or "understanding things". It much deeper than just language.
- FilosofumRex 1y agoYes, exactly, just watch how little babies recognize and communicate about hundreds of objects, emotions and situations before they're able to utter momma or dadda.
- hirvi74 1y ago> Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing. Did Robert Frost say something like, "all language is poetry?" A chair is the term I learned to describe the object I am currently sitting on while typing this comment. Germans might call the same object a 'Stuhl', the French might call it a 'chaise', etc.. My point being that the object isn't technically any of those words, but rather those words symbolically map to that object.