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Re:C++17: I See a Monad in Your Future by marcosdumay on Thursday February 27, 2014 @09:03PM (#7316783)
Eh, sorry, but you work with a machine whose purpose is to manipulate mathematical constructs, following a mathematical algorithm, receiving mathematical symbols as input, and outputting that same class of symbols, originally invented by mathematicians, and improved by them through several iterations until they achieved the form they have now.

Oh, and lots and lots of your peers are formed in an specialization of mathematics called "Computer Science".

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Re:C++17: I See a Monad in Your Future by marssaxman on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:13PM (#7320813)
Of course. But the fact that I'm doing this work on a device built from electronic components does not make me an electrical engineer, and the fact that physicists discovered the principles which make semiconductors possible does not make the work I'm doing a part of physics.

One might as well say that biology is a branch of philosophy, because it was the source of all the natural scientists; but such a description, in modern times, would not be particularly informative.

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