> "If you are a systems and network programmer like Raymond, you can do your job just fine without anything more than multiplication and an occasional modulus.

> "If you are a systems and network programmer like Raymond, you can do your job just fine without anything more than multiplication and an occasional modulus. " So a systems programmer would never use a tree, a heap or any not trivial data structure? Since when graph theory is not part of math? I am with the author on this, those statements are fairly simplistic. In my experience, a strong math background is the difference between an A and a B/C programmer.