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This is something obvious, but lost on some minds -because feel attacked?-. IF programming is math, then math IS programming? That's absurd! Math loving peop
by mamcx 12y ago
This is something obvious, but lost on some minds -because feel attacked?-.
IF programming is math, then math IS programming?
That's absurd!
Math loving people see everything with their math-eyes: Everything is math, everywhere.
Math is math. Biology is biology and programming is programming. Nothing can be everything at the same time, because then you need a God-like mind. Everything a human mind produce is a slice of reality/imagination, ergo, specialization.
Biology can be (partially) explained (sometimes, badly and worse) with math. BUT can be explained far better with language.
Math could be considered (or is?) a language, but is a shitty one (like a truly compressed C/Perl code) that as one-liner code is great to encode fast some stuff, but at large, is not the best way to convey IDEAS.
That is why I'm using words, here. Not math!.
That is why a programming language is made of WORDS, not math symbols. That is why, you don't write a app with math, you use symbols and languages.
That is why math is based in the kind of symbols derived from language, too.
This NOT mean math is useless or bad or something else. Is just a obvious observation: Math is not the focus in programming. Is not the focus in almost anything that happen in the realm of a human mind, UNTIL you need it. And programming stuff you don't need much of it, and when you truly need it? Still language dominate the task.
Not believe? Go read the source code luke, and see how much math vs words are there. You can check any large codebase, and see it for yourself.
When the analogy of "Programming is like a car.. is like building a house, is like ...." fall apart nobody insist that programming is like architecture. So why do the same with math?