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Mathematics considered harmful

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-02 21:41

I have not found in practice that programmers need to be mathematically inclined to become great software developers. Quite the opposite, in fact.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001249.html

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-02 21:55

>>1
Raged at misleading title, raged at Coding Horror, raged at downplaying mathematics.  God damn.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-02 21:59

YHBTTT

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-02 22:02

>>2
So what you're saying is, "3/3".

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-02 22:02

0/10

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-02 22:17

>>4
There are two more he didn't figure out.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-02 22:29

Math is a lot easier to pick up after you know how to program. In fact, if you're a halfway decent programmer, you'll find it's almost a snap.
Stopped reading here and am just going to go outside for a while.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-02 22:36

>>7
Hey, but this is not an Atwood quote. It's by Steve Yegge.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-02 22:43

More like Steve Smegma.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-02 23:10

>>9
>i
You have:
a Ron Penton Coin
a Coffee mug
some data structures
a copy of SICP
a souvenir photo ofHaskell the dog
>e
You enter Ron Penton's Private Sexy Pleasures. There is a strong smell of smegma in the room.
>l
You are in Ron Penton's Private Sexy Pleasures. You see Ron Penton.
>put coin in Ron Penton
You put the coin in the Ron Penton. Ron Penton notices your data structures and starts peeing in your coffee mug.
>run
You cannot run. Ron Penton is filling the mug.
>PLUGH
You cannot PLUGH. Ron Penton has filled the mug and is staring at your asshole suggestively.
>throw data structures at Ron
You throw several STL structures at Ron Penton. Ron Penton is nonplussed.
>w
You try to go back but shitty collision detection prevents you from doing so. Ron Penton is approaching and licking his LIPS.
>read SICP
You start conjuring the spirits of the computer with your spells. Ron Penton twitches around.
>read SICP
Ron Penton's head has inflated by approximately 350%.
>read SICP
Ron Penton explodes. His guts are all over the wall.
>z
You rest.
>w
Now that your several problems have been solved, you start heading back and take a sip from your mug on the way.OH SHI-
>b
You vomit out the contents of the mug.
>l
You are standing outside of Ron Penton's Private Sexy Pleasures. There is some piss and saliva on the floor.
>j
You *grab dick* and begin to masturbate, using the piss/saliva solution as a lubricant.Ohhh, Satori...

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 0:16

>>10

fucking lol.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 4:41

>>10
this makes me want to write a text adventure

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 5:46

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Note that he specifically says native tongue, not English. Which makes me wonder why all of Dijkstra's most important writings were in English, not his native Dutch.
One should master logic before an attempt to dis at prof. Dijkstra.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 6:21

Atwood is a retarded faggot and WHBTC.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 9:30

Atwood is a retarded faggot with 57529 readers ａｎｄ　ｉ　ｆｅｅｌ　ｋｉｎｄ　ｏｆ　ＦＵＱＵＩＮ　ＲＡＧＩＮＧ　ａｂｏｕｔ　ｔｈｅｍ

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 12:31

Atwood is a bad programmer.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 12:39

Atwood is a programmer?

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 13:00

>>17
Only in the loosest[1] sense of the term.

___________________________________
[1] ref: Leah Culver's vagina

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 13:09

>>15
this post was the accumulation of /prog/.

/prog/ is boardstopped, you can't post anymore, you can't start threads anymore.

return EXIT_SUCCESS;

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 16:19

>>18
I lol'ed :(

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 17:46

If you ignore your right brain, and I'm talking generally about abstraction and aesthetics, then you can slap some code together that might work, but it also might be one hell of a maintenance nightmare. If you focus only on the right brain, you might have something that works, but is so utterly inefficient and personalized that you're the only person on Earth who could make sense of the code and maintain it.

Is Atwood's trolling predominantly right-brained or left-brained?

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 18:15

>>21
Empty-

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 20:41

>>22
nil-

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-03 20:46

>>9,10

>smegma

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-04 2:51

Atwood is Visual Basic programmer. That should explain it all.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-04 8:10

Mathematics considered harmful considered harmful

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-04 13:23

Atwood is [...] programmer.
lol

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-04 13:51

>>27
Your pattern also fits for ``Atwood is not a programmer.'', which you might consider true, ergo non lol-worthy. Your post and word skipping are flawed.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-04 14:04

>>28
Your [...] flawed.

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-04 14:14

>>29
SHIT I HAVE BEEN TROLL‼

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-04 14:33

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FUCK

Name: Anonymous 2009-04-08 4:54

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Name: Anonymous 2009-04-08 5:14

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