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by dllthomas 4271 days ago
You can totally "Computer Science" without programming. It's a big field, and a big portion of it is pretty much math. You probably cannot "Applied Computer Science" without programming.
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I just replied in the context of the article. I'm assuming if you are doing math proofs all day you probably aren't dealing with "command line bullshittery".
I initially thought the same thing. But then I considered that many of the theoreticians probably write their papers in LaTeX.
I wouldn't generally call that programming.
But it does involve command-line bullshittery which is more what the article is about.

The article isn't bemoaning the state of programming languages or their tooling necessarily---more all the steps to get a programming language toolchain off-the-ground and working (like an Android dev environment etc. or a cross-compiling environment).

Certainly the case. My comment was an aside directed at its parent, not deeply relevant to the article itself.