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Re:Two Workers Are Quadratically Better Than One by eru on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:37PM (#25004944)
The exact opposite would be:

> A pet peeve of mine is showing things much more easily and clearly with math than demonstrating them through programming.

You probably meant something like

> A pet peeve of mine is demonstrating things through math that can much more easily and clearly be shown with programming.

I don't think andrepd would disagree with the latter. Basically, pick the clearest way to show things.

Re:Two Workers Are Quadratically Better Than One by inopinatus on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:26AM (#25005165)
Not sure about this. The opposite of a pet peeve would necessarily be a undomesticated, wild, or feral peeve.

In this case, by simple inversion that'd be demonstrating things through programming, that would be more challenging to prove with mathematics.

By such a standard, the four-colour theorem would be an example of a feral peeve. However, the work of Agner Krarup Erlang would not.