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in thread No longer a programmer

A degree of math, I'll agree. But not necessarily programming.

I'm thinking here of some of the finance people that I know. Very mathematically inclined. But not particularly organized towards programming...

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Re^3: No longer a programmer
by GrandFather (Saint) on May 23, 2007 at 07:56 UTC

    Optimising pathways in various ways is something programmers often do. Not with mathematical rigour to find a shortest path, but by rule of thumb to find a reasonable compromise between programmer effort and machine effort.


    DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel