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The "common knowledge" of the IT industry is not a some language or notations, but a logic (not a common logic, but a science) and mathematics. While considere
by dottedmag 18y ago
The "common knowledge" of the IT industry is not a some language or notations, but a logic (not a common logic, but a science) and mathematics.
While considered as "abstract" and "having nothing to do with reality", /proper/ branches of mathematics capture many aspects of programming, so new languages/technologies/whatewer are not perceived as a "reinventing the Foo from the last century", but as a "another appilcation of Bar from the Baz field", which is much more fruitful comparison, due to depth of the mathematics itself.