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Agreed. That's like hearing about early group theory and disregarding it as abstract nonsense. Turns out it's pretty useful everywhere now, but at the beginning it was not so obvious.

I would also change the statement to "never have a direct impact on programming". Indirectly in 100 years this may lead us to a better understanding of physics (modular forms have some weird hypothetised connections to physics that I don't really understand), which may let us construct better computers, which will obviously have an impact on programming.