Math... definitely. Calculus? Probably not. Programmers will definitely benefit from learning algebra, geometry, graph theory, and combinatorics. Maybe some probability & statistics too. Any of these subjects can teach you to be rigorous and precise as well as calculus can.
Personally, I haven't used calculus in three decades. OTOH, there are certainly domains of programming that require explicit knowledge of calculus to solve problems. -- Dan Barrett dbarr...@blazemonger.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
