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by imcn 4348 days ago
Well I suppose if you're just doing basic web programming you're not doing math. But even that (animations, etc.) can involve a ton of math.

Low level programming, the programming high languages are based on, use a lot of math. Using ruby on rails is just abstracting you from the math you'd have to do if you were actually programming something hard.

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This, a lot of people are confused about what programming actually is by the sheer amount of abstraction libraries. A lot of frameworks i have used i would not even class as programming any more. It's more along the lines of a markup language.