Comment by enraged_camel
13 years ago
>>It probably doesn't help that we go around parroting the ludicrous notion that you don't need math to program.
I thought the consensus was that it really depends on the type of problems one is trying to solve, and that most programmers can in fact get away with knowing little math.
Just because something is a consensus doesn't make it true. And its not a consensus, its just the majority view that a minority of us find incredibly backwards. Just because you can get away with something doesn't mean its a good idea either. You can get away with a lot in programming, back yourself into a corner, and hack your way out, does that mean since you can get away with it that its a good idea to program like that?