I just wanted to pass along this article about "What motivates programmers?", and let me state that it is right on. It's the hardware.
In fact, a few months ago I had a fellow programmer with less seniorship at work get a new laptop because her old one died. At the same time, I was still working on my very slow desktop. Even though I realized the switch was purely functional, I was still a bit resentful.
Funny, isn't it?
Sometimes, I really have a hard time believing the things that I read. Well, last week I came across a short article about a new book that computer science is not, and should not be based on mathematics.
Now, I can understand the opinion that programming requires less mathematical knowledge than it did in past decades because many algorithms have been established and languages have incorporated common complex computations into their folds. However, to claim that math is not needed for computer science is just rediculous. I'd love to see the author figure out the location of a mouse click without some kind of location calculation.
But maybe this does explain all the horribly inefficient code I've come across in my days as a developer.
Found via Slashdot
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