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I don't think that is strictly limited to programmers. When I was a student, I heard even law students and economists make more or less tha same arguments abou
by berntb 17y ago
I don't think that is strictly limited to programmers.
When I was a student, I heard even law students and economists make more or less tha same arguments about their subjects.
That is, there are collections of rules you could handle like games and/or machines, pulling different strings and adjusting to make them do what you want.
(Chemistry and physics are other obvious subjects.)
Of course, the non-programmers' wimpy systems aren't real Turing machines... :-)
- shard 17y agoWell, people doing genetic modification work are working with Turing complete machines, though writing code is still a bit of a problem..
- berntb 17y agoHmm... you have a point. I should have noted that myself. During the IT death, I did some bio-/organic chemistry courses for fun. It seemed so interesting to modify prokaryotes. Like the people programming logical circuits with the game of Life, but with proteins. I got ill for a while and had to stop studying, otherwise I might be working with bioinformatics now. On the other hand, biochemical lab work was boring (organic chemistry lab was incredibly fun.)