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in reply to Programming and math

1) 2) 3) It's necessary to know some words to write poetry.
But when you write poetry, you are speaking about soul.


1) .. 3) Math as a tool for your work give you shortcut.
To be a good programmer need programming xp-rience and insight.

1) In mathematic field yes, in real word you just need to be able to describe formally a problem. Solutions can breaks some rules, math cannot (do you use strict:))

2) They will get a better salary for sure!
All algorithm doesn's need an hardware knowledge

3) You should get a look at Perl :)