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		User23 on Aug 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the cruelty of really teaching computing scienc... Dijkstra’s degree was in mathematics. And yes the average mathematical theory is indeed flat compared to a large monolith like google3.

AnimalMuppet on Aug 20, 2024 [–]

All right, but the average program is also flat compared to google3. So that argument doesn't prove much.

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