"... looking for a Programmer with Perl and MySQL experience"

??? Funny how people see different questions. Do I detect a bit of nose-in-the-air, Mr. A-M?

At any rate, abstraction is a discipline in itself, whatever framework/notation one uses.

I was in a 'gifted' program in high school ('73) where I visited with a junior math professor at the university, and we spent Monday afternoons discussing equations and their solutions from both mathematical and algorithmic perspectives. You're correct in that it wasn't about programming.

A more pertinent question would be, "was it useful?" Since the OP's specifics were about a job requiring a degree, it would seem to me that that would be the question to ask. It was useful in that it stretched my brain, but I wouldn't say that I have ever gotten close to that kind of algorithmic expression again.

Which is not to say that I don't value the fields of computer science or math... if you look at my posts, I've repeatedly stated that I have read gobs of both, among other things. What I object to is the blind assumption that someone with an undergrad degree in CS or math (or anything else except perhaps an engineering degree) is going to be better at a {name your specialty} computer-related job than a non-degreed person.

In reply to Re^3: Mathematics eq CompSci by samizdat
in thread Mathematics eq CompSci by kiat

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