yes, that's an interesting insight. a lot of programming is much more like learning-a-foreign-language grammar (agreement, vocabulary, inflection) than it is like math.
most of what I do is much more like writing (trying to find good ways to easily express something) than like mathematics (trying to find a proof).
An awful lot of programs can solve the problem. Some (in fact, many) may take so long to run that they're not useful. thus solving problems in programming languages is sometimes more like writing exposition than like mathematical proof.
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Date: 2006-05-30 11:30 pm (UTC)most of what I do is much more like writing (trying to find good ways to easily express something) than like mathematics (trying to find a proof).
An awful lot of programs can solve the problem. Some (in fact, many) may take so long to run that they're not useful. thus solving problems in programming languages is sometimes more like writing exposition than like mathematical proof.