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A lot of more applied CS departments don't require a CS theory course, and many programmers didn't major in CS or never attended university.
So there are far more computer programmers than there are people who know what recursive function theory is or how it relates to modern computers.
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A lot of more applied CS departments don't require a CS theory course, and many programmers didn't major in CS or never attended university.
So there are far more computer programmers than there are people who know what recursive function theory is or how it relates to modern computers.