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first for haskell is bad and you should feel bad

I am working on an eccomerce site that was half finished by someone else written using language choices I don't like.

what thred to use???''

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scrap it and make in ruby on rails

explain

fuck off

Then I would have two problems.
Two exactly alike problems.

It's for crossdressers.

(g)awk is godtier
perl sucks

Learning Go and constantly getting angry at the bullshit short variable names the community seems to have adopted as their standard

>first year computer science
>love programming and doing really well in programming courses
>hate math and not really good at it
Is math really needed for a programmer?

maybe, but what is wrong with haskell, really?

>Is math really needed for a programmer?
No. Computers are basically fancy calculators, just let them do the heavy lifting.

>Computers are basically fancy calculators, just let them do the heavy lifting.
you have to know what to put on that fancy calculator

programming is all about problem solving, if you can't into problem solving then you're going to have a bad time

Now the question is, is would it be quicker to edit the GIMP source code and recompile, or to edit the text with GIMP?

wena nido

It depends on what you want to do? Natural language processing, machine learning, 3d graphics? Forget about it.

Web dev? You're probably fine.

It depends on how well you math. If you can math just fine, but just don't like doing it, you will be fine.

>you have to know what to put on that fancy calculator
I said heavy lifting, he's still expected to do the light lifting.

Why do Universities insert so much useless math into the program then?

>useless
If you honestly think the calculus sequence and linear algebra are useless, you're totally naive.

> Computer Science
> Branch of mathematics
> Complains about too much math

>Because you are getting an education, not just training.

I know they're useful, but in 99.9% of the programming scenarios you're not gonna need it.

skeptical--linear algebra is used everywhere.

Not to mention the thought process behind solving linear algebraic problems (we have some data and we want to munge it) is the foundation for 90%+ of programming scenarios.

this

if you don't need math or at least similar methodology as solving math problems then you're doing some code monkey stuff that you didn't even need a degree for

upon second thought, maybe i'm stretching the analogy a bit too much.

Still, linear algebra is highly important.

What's the real thread man?

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