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"God is real unless you declare it as integer"
My blog | Arch User | Linux user #439142 | Ubuntu user #10974
"God is real unless you declare it as integer"
Programming is math. The numbers are just wearing different clothes.
Most of the early programming projects I worked on in my first job had little or no maths, unless you count the addresses of the data. Even then, it was more like basic arithmetic, rather than full-blown maths. How much maths do you need to select which records in a file you're reading should be reformatted and sent to a report file?
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Stating the rules by which to select or not to select rows can be considered a branch of mathematics. You have to prove that your rules apply to the desired rows and to those rows only.
The same can apply to the transformation of those rows into output rows. You have to formulate your expectations that the program would indeed yield a correct output row for every selected input row. You also had to demonstrate that your program would execute correctly even in the absence of rows, and that demonstration preferably had to take place before you released your program into the production environment.
It's not linear algebra or arithmetics, but it can be considered Math, nonetheless.
My blog | Arch User | Linux user #439142 | Ubuntu user #10974
"God is real unless you declare it as integer"
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