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		upmind on May 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: To the brain, reading computer code is not the sam... People have always told me the best programmers/computer scientists are also great mathematicians and this seems to support that. Esp thinking about Turing, Von Neumann and Knuth

mrbungie on May 26, 2024 [–]

Academic/theorical computer scientists, totally.

But pragmatic programmers / software engineers, try reading the average PhD's python code. Usually it is a mess.

Knuth may be an exception, rather than the rule.

Kinrany on May 26, 2024 | [–]

Average PhDs are by definition not the best though?

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