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Re:Think in Math, Write in Code by sidlls on Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:48AM (#20469182)
On the other hand the sculptor has considered the type of clay, the quantity, the tools she'd need to use to carve away those bits, and understands enough about what she wants to create to know what bits to carve away first.

Programming may not be (all) math, but it's not art, either.

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Re:Think in Math, Write in Code by hutzlibu on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:11AM (#20469938)
"Programming may not be (all) math, but it's not art, either."

Huh? Maybe the kind of common 8-5 office programming around buisness logic is not, but to design any bigger project is definitely art.

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Re:Think in Math, Write in Code by seanmcdirmid on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:13PM (#20471299)
Math can be considered an art, though not a fine art. Programming by either extension is an art (though again, not a fine art).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_and_art

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Re:Think in Math, Write in Code by j88439h84 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:18PM (#20471949)
I don't see why it couldn't be a fine art.
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Re:Think in Math, Write in Code by seanmcdirmid on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:40PM (#20472170)
Perhaps it could be practiced as part of a fine art, but like carpentry, programming itself isn’t.
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