Albin Jose to Programming@programming.dev • 9 months agoWhich programming language is hard to understand?message-square62fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down16
arrow-up115arrow-down1message-squareWhich programming language is hard to understand?Albin Jose to Programming@programming.dev • 9 months agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-square@0xc0ba17@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink7•9 months agoMathematicians and scientists are notoriously awful programmers. They get shit done but with absolutely 0 regard to good practices and reusability.
minus-square@coloredgrayscale@programming.devlinkfedilink2•9 months agoWould have thought mathematicians would be slightly better at writing functions
minus-square@Wojwo@lemmy.mllinkfedilink1•9 months agoIt’s kind of like hiring a bunch of physicists to design a bridge. It’ll probably be a great bridge, but also probably overly complex, expensive and late. And for some reason made out of a novel alloy.
Mathematicians and scientists are notoriously awful programmers. They get shit done but with absolutely 0 regard to good practices and reusability.
Would have thought mathematicians would be slightly better at writing functions
It’s kind of like hiring a bunch of physicists to design a bridge. It’ll probably be a great bridge, but also probably overly complex, expensive and late. And for some reason made out of a novel alloy.