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by Iftheshoefits 4336 days ago
The "enterprise-y" garbage you note has almost nothing to do with the mathematical competence of programmers who implement it.

You write as though programming is an exercise in mathematics. It's not, in general. There are specific problems where mathematics is actually a component of the problem/solution space, e.g. mathematical research, scientific computing, in which programming is the form of the solution to the math problem (analogous to, e.g. "express your answer using set notation", except in this case it's "express your answer in the form of a computer program"). Mathematics may underpin some of programming, and most often in some areas of computer science, but the vast majority of software development has very little to do with math.