From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnss!ihuxn!djmolny
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Dr. D., math, etc.
Article-I.D.: ihuxn.121
Posted: Tue May 11 08:52:30 1982
Received: Wed May 12 03:35:13 1982


FLAME ON!!

When am I going to stop hearing statements like we13!plw made:  "I doubt
that people with a weak math background are designing compilers and
operating systems"?  I've done both, and my mathematical knowledge would
fit on the head of a pin.  Judging from the responses I received from my
math vs. CS query, a lot of other people are in the same category.

Software engineering is not math.  Period.  You can look at it from a math
angle if you wish, but there's more to programming than formal analyses,
just as there's more to fiction than syntax and grammar.  (As this note
proves.)  End of flame.

						-- DJ Molny
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