Re:A collection of abstract patterns
by poat on Thursday July 14, 2016 @05:15PM
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That's like saying you don't need math. For the most part, in everyday life, that's true, but there are cases where functional human beings disagree, or we find ourselves in novel situations that we don't know how to handle. In those cases, we need new ways to think and communicate. Intuition works great for catching a ball, but you'll need math to land a rocket on mars.
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This was my attempt to joke about the fact that every time design patterns in software architecture are mentioned, someone pipes up about how design patterns aren't useful in functional languages because it's all built in.
You don't need math 'the language', but only because your ad-hoc inferences are suitable. You do need math 'the models' because you can't think without those things. The subject of math isn't actually esoteric. It's the community and conventions that are esoteric.