Albin Jose@suppo.fi to Programming@programming.dev · 9 months agoWhich programming language is hard to understand?message-squaremessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down113
arrow-up158arrow-down1message-squareWhich programming language is hard to understand?Albin Jose@suppo.fi to Programming@programming.dev · 9 months agomessage-square120fedilink
minus-square0xc0ba17@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agoMathematicians and scientists are notoriously awful programmers. They get shit done but with absolutely 0 regard to good practices and reusability.
minus-squarecoloredgrayscale@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoWould have thought mathematicians would be slightly better at writing functions
minus-squareWojwo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 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.
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