llothar wrote: >> I'm, not sure that I'm getting your point, but are you trying to argue that >> _not_ knowing mathemathics makes you a better programmer? > > No but it doesn't help you very much either. They are just different > skills.
Many things within programming have a foundation in mathematics and mathematical logic. >> Or maybe that learning math is useless to a programmer? > > No and at least the mathematical idea of building a universe on a > basic set > of axioms is pretty exciting for a programmer. But it's the idea not > the real > wisdom (I never had to use any serious maths in my 25 years of > programming) > that you need as a programmer Depends obvious a bot on what you consider serious math. Expression evaluation, floating point characteristics, relational database theory, simulation, optimum location, encryption etc. are all based on mathematics of different levels. >> This must be the most ignorant post I've seen >> this week. The *best* programmers I've seen actually had mathematic >> education. > > Depends. I would call Knuth as one of the worst programmers. Look at > his total > failures on literature programming. Software Engineering is something > very > different. I think you will find it very difficult to write a piece of code that are not heavily influenced by Knuth. Arne -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list