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Jayson_Virissimo comments on More intuitive programming languages - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 15 April 2012 12:35:43PM 2 points [-]

What did they do before programming?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 15 April 2012 12:41:37PM 4 points [-]

One was a physics grad student, the other a mathematics grad student. Both had some prior experience with basic Bash.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 April 2012 04:30:43PM 1 point [-]

This makes it much less surprising. Anecdotally in my social circle it seems that people who have had studied math or physics seem to easily pick up programming.