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This was all people knew. Most people saw programming as a branch of math. When a high school offered a programming class, it was often taught by a math teacher. The smaller colleges in my state, that were beginning to add computer science, did so by combining it with the math department.

My mom taught programming in the early 80s. She took a course at the nearby community college, and a year later, was teaching the course. Her background was... high school math teacher. She said: "Programming is just math, a program is like a proof." Fortunately I loved math and proofs, so that way of thinking wasn't an obstacle for me. Clearly we know differently now.