The power of fsharp seem so intense and well fitted, that I wonder how shops built upon weaker langage will resist to new ventures built upon this.

I came to fsharp when I saw they had type providers, which I thought of years. back then I thought that programming without it did not really make sense as their arrival would shift grounds so much. the current implementation of them is just a baby seed to a wider ecosystem.

I’ve been a programmer for many years and still do it all day every day with minimal use of standard math. So I can see why programmers say that they don’t use math.

That said, basically every if statement used by a progrogrammer (please try to tell me you never use this) is indeed the use of Boolean Algebra. So yes, math is very much used daily with programming. I would say that most programmers just don’t know it. I know taking a class Boolean Algebra changed very much the way I thought in implenting parts of my code (not always for the better when experimenting with implementing a simple or statement using NANDs). It did help me learn different ways to implement logic in different ways.

i = i+1 :)

I think that most people would happily go through their lives not thinking about this stuff at all. Most people don’t even realise that math has a relevance to music, nor do they have a clue at the engineering, modelling and math that goes on behind the scenes with something as “simple” as a screw, nut or wrench is produced.

Consumers are often mindless when it comes to this kind of thing.

Would I want to buy something that wasn’t properly tested and modelled? Absolutely not. But I think the vast majority wouldn’t think twice about it unless they knew that the models existed.