You can make any subject "mathy", because there are relations, ratios, correlation and patterns in everything. My favorite example, is how Chomsky mathified li

You can make any subject "mathy", because there are relations, ratios, correlation and patterns in everything. My favorite example, is how Chomsky mathified linguistics, and made it esoteric, undecipherable, uncomputable and thereby linguists unemployable, even in research labs. But as a matter of practice, teaching programming to engineers/scientists, even to mathematicians, is an order of magnitude easier than teaching math to CS folks. Simply quiz job candidates on fp arithmetics, and see how many fail miserably.