> prof.dr.Edsger W.Dijkstra Ah. I don't know if he'd be pleased or dismayed to l... | Hacker News

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		MathMonkeyMan 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975) > prof.dr.Edsger W.Dijkstra Ah. I don't know if he'd be pleased or dismayed to learn that here in 2025, programming is often a whole lot easier than pure mathematics. Programming is often small science experiments performed on immensely complex systems. Math is still actually math.

OhMeadhbh 12 months ago [–]

Writing bad programs is still easy. Writing good programs is still hard. No one agrees what "good" and "bad" mean in this context.

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