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Programming vs. Mathematical Curiosity
Recently i came across a puzzling property of numbers that got me to reflect on what “tickles” my mind as a programmer. And how programmers and mathematicians, even though they share much in common —a mix of playfulness and rigour, and a knack for logic problem solving—, might be motivated by very different things. Of course, this is all painting with very broad strokes. Every person is different.
And how programmers and mathematicians, even though they share much in common —a mix of playfulness and rigour, and a knack for logic problem solving—, might be motivated by very different things. By the way, if you’re wondering about this def name(args) = expr weirdness, that is Ruby’s “endless” method syntax, which debuted on version 3.0. On the one hand, it seems like the kind of unnecessary syntax sugar that tends to bloat languages and complicates answering basic questions like “how do i define a method?”.
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