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Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ... by ajuc on Friday May 02, 2025 @01:02PM (#43872315)
The difficulty is in how many relationships you need to keep in mind, not in how hard each of them are.

Just like in math.

BTW relational DBs are math.

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Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ... by RHSeeger on Friday May 02, 2025 @01:16PM (#43872481)
> BTW relational DBs are math.

It's funny, reading the post you're replying to, I basically read it as

> I don't need math, I need <math, but by another name>

My teenage daughter used to complain about math, and I spent some time trying to explain to her that we use math every day... EVERY day. Now, when I see her do something that was math (even if it's not obvious it was math), I say "Math... every day". I say that a lot.

Also, yes, my daughter finds me annoying. But also funny; but likely not for the math thing.

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Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ... by godelski on Friday May 02, 2025 @01:44PM (#43872785) 

  > I don't need math, I need <math, but by another name>
This seems to be how it always goes. I think we've confused a lot of people by conflating math with arithmetic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43872687

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Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ... by GoblinSlayer on Saturday May 03, 2025 @02:10PM (#43880920)
DBs aren't math. In math it's perfectly ok for computation to take infinite time, you can just assume it already completed, but DBs don't work like that.
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