03 JAN 2011 by ideonexus

 Computer Programming Brings Complex Thought to the Masses

Omni: Does that limit the number of people who can contribute, or even understand what's being done? Feynman: Or else somebody will develop a way of thinking about the problems so that we can understand them more easily. Maybe they'll just teach it earlier and earlier. You know, it's not true that what is called "abstruse" math is so difficult. Take something like computer programming, and the careful logic needed for that--the kind of thinking that mama and papa would have said was only for ...
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A half century ago, the logic required to do computer programming was considered something only professors could do, now everyone does it.