CompSci and Programming: less that 100 years old. Math: over 3000 years old. Let’s see if you get to redesign your programming languages in 3000 years.
3000 is a bit of an exaggeration, seeing as the vast majority of mathematics was invented from the 17th century onwards, it’s more fair to call it 400 years vs programming’s 70-something.
Though, if we consider analogue calculators, e.g. the on leibniz made, then you argue programming is about as old as modern math...but I think that’s cheating.
But, well, that’s kind of my point. It may be that 400 years calcifies a field, be that math or programming or anything else.
Now, the question remains as to whether this is good or not, intuitively it seems like something bad.
CompSci and Programming: less that 100 years old. Math: over 3000 years old. Let’s see if you get to redesign your programming languages in 3000 years.
3000 is a bit of an exaggeration, seeing as the vast majority of mathematics was invented from the 17th century onwards, it’s more fair to call it 400 years vs programming’s 70-something.
Though, if we consider analogue calculators, e.g. the on leibniz made, then you argue programming is about as old as modern math...but I think that’s cheating.
But, well, that’s kind of my point. It may be that 400 years calcifies a field, be that math or programming or anything else.
Now, the question remains as to whether this is good or not, intuitively it seems like something bad.