On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 00:51:04 UTC, Manu wrote:
Perhaps you've never worked with incompetent programmers (in my
experience, >50% of the professional workforce).
Programmers, on average, don't know maths. They literally have
no idea
how to simplify an algebraic expression.
I think there are about 3-4 (being generous!) people in my
office (of
30-40) that could do it properly, and without spending heaps of
time
on it.
But you don't think you need to look up to programmers who are
not able to quickly simplify an algebraic expression? :)
For example, I'm a little addicted to sports programming. And I
could really use matrix and other math in the standard library.
